Woodlawn Cemetery in Wellesley, Massachusetts

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Get directions 148 Brook Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA

Coordinates: 42.29440, -71.27920
781-235-7133
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Woodlawn Cemetery was laid out in 1877 on land purchased by the Wellesley Congregational Church. In the following years, the graves of more than 140 persons were removed from the cemetery adjacent to the church (Cemetery ID# 2202574) and transferred to Woodlawn, mostly to make way for new construction. These included 67 remains taken from the Bullard, Parker & Smith family tombs. Many old slate gravestones form the church were also moved to Woodlawn. Info. from: Clarke, G.K., Epitaphs From Graveyards in Wellesley (Formerly West Needham}, North Natick, and Saint Mary's Churchyard in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, 1900. Woodlawn Cemetery is currently open and was recently expanded to accommodate new burials.