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Armstrong, James b. August 7, 1794 d. August 27, 1868
United States Naval Officer. He was in command of the Navy Yard at Pensacola when Florida seceded from the Union in 1861. He turned the facility over to state forces without resistance. Earlier in his career he distinguished himself as commander of the Navy's East India Squadron during the so-called "Arrow War" also known as the Second Opium War in China in 1857. Although the conflict was primarily between France, Britain and China, Chinese forces fired on American vessels in a swelling of anti-...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Holly Avenue at Hallidon Avenue
Bates, George Joseph b. February 25, 1891 d. November 1, 1949
US Congressman. He was a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1918 to 1924, and served as mayor of Salem from 1924 to 1937. In 1937, he was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving until his death in an airplane accident. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Saint Marys Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Benson, Frank Weston b. March 24, 1862 d. November 14, 1951
Last of the Great American Impressionist painters and one of the most honored and successful artists of his time. He is famed for works that capture dazzling plays of light in both indoors and outdoors settings. He was born to a wealthy merchant family in Salem. His brother, John Prentiss Benson, was a well known maritime realist painter. Benson received his first art training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, from 1880-1883. In 1883, Benson traveled to Paris and continued his...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Benson, John Prentiss b. February 8, 1865 d. November 16, 1947
Maritime realist painter and architect. He was born into a wealthy Salem merchant family. His brother, Frank W. Benson was a renowned impressionist painter. Although he aspired to a career in art, he made his living as an architect and was well into his fifties before he began his career painting maritime scenes. He is estimated to have produced more than 500 canvasses. His paintings can be viewed at Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Bentley, William b. June 22, 1754 d. December 29, 1819
Unitarian clergyman, diarist. He was ordained September 24, 1783, and became pastor of East Church in Salem where he spent the rest of his life. An ardent diarist, he concisely recorded daily events in the seaport ranging from the burgeoning China Trade, maritime construction, national and global politics and how each affected the community, freemasonry, slavery, and numerous other issues of the day. His observations are cited in numerous historical works. He was a friend of Presidents John...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Bishop, Bridget [cenotaph] d. June 10, 1692
Victim of the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Bradstreet, Simon b. March 18, 1603 d. March 27, 1697
Colonial Governor. Bradstreet received bachelor's and master's degrees from Cambridge's Emmanuel College. He married Anne Dudley, who was the daughter of Puritan leader Thomas Dudley and later became the first published poet in North America. Dudley and Bradstreet relocated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and Dudley was soon chosen to serve as governor. Bradstreet was involved in numerous business pursuits, most notably land speculation, and founded several new towns. He also filled...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Bresnahan, Patrick Francis b. May 1, 1872 d. January 29, 1940
Peacetime Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Watertender in the United States Navy. His citation reads "Serving on board the USS Iowa for extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing-out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board that vessel, 25 January 1905." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Saint Marys Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Avenue 2, Lot 24
Burroughs, George [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged for
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Carrier, Martha [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
Salem Witch Trial Victim. Convicted of practicing witchcraft and hanged during the Salem Witch Trials. Twenty benches stand in a Memorial for the victims, one for each who were actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison). She was born between 1643 & 1650 to Andrew & Faith (Ingalls) Allen of Andover MA. She married Thomas Carrier, aka Morgan, a recently arrived bondservant, 7 May 1664, when she was 7 months pregnant with her eldest child. She unsuccessfully nursed her father &...[Read More] (Bio by: Linda Mac)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cogswell, William b. August 23, 1838 d. May 22, 1895
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. At the start of the Civil War, he was a lawyer in practice, enlisted and was commissioned a Captian in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, in May 1861. In 1862, he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel and commanded a artillery unit in Virginia with the Army of the Potomac. Promoted Colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts in 1863, he saw action at the Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, Gettysburg the Wilderness, and the Siege of Petersburg. For...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Chapel Avenue, Lot 1675
Corey, Giles [cenotaph] d. September 19, 1692
Accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Giles Corey was never convicted of witchcraft. He was being pressed by the court because he refused to plead to the charge (at that time, if he refused to plead, he had, in essence, not submitted to or recognized the authority or jurisdiction of the court). He was being pressed to force him to plead guilty or not guilty. He refused and died after about 3 days of pressing. Corey's only statement during this time was to demand...[Read More]
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Corey, Martha [cenotaph] d. September 22, 1692
Wife of Giles Corey. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Corwin, George b. February 26, 1666 d. April 12, 1696
Colonial figure. He was the High Sheriff of Essex County in the Massachusetts Bay colony during the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria and carried out the arrests of the accused and the executions of the condemned. He also presided at the fatal interrogation, under torture, of accused Giles Cory, who was crushed to death with stones over a period of three days. Only in his mid twenties when he held the post, anecdotal history portrays the sheriff as particularly sadistic and corrupt. But official...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Corwin Family Tomb
Corwin, Jonathan b. November 14, 1640 d. July 25, 1718
Jurist. He was a judge in the infamous Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, assisting in conducting examinations of many of those accused of witchcraft, which helped create a hysteria in the coastal Massachusetts town. As a result of the witchcraft trials, 20 people from in and around Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts were hanged, and several other died in jail awaiting trial. (Bio by: Mike Beard)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Creesy Jr., Capt. Josiah Perkins b. March 23, 1814 d. June, 1871
Clipper ship captain/master mariner. Captain Creesy (variously spelled Cressey, Cressy) Jr., was the master of the clipper ship Flying Cloud - built by Donald McKay in Boston - on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco around South America's Cape Horn. In 1851, aided by his wife Eleanor (Prentiss), a master navigator who plotted the clipper's course using dead reckoning around the Horn, due to a constant overcast that prevented her from fixing their position via the sun, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Sea-view Avenue
Crowninshield, Jacob b. March 31, 1770 d. April 15, 1808
US Congressman, Merchant Sea Captain. Elected as a Republican to represent Massachusetts' 2nd District and as an At-Large in the Eighth and two succeeding Congresses, he served from 1803 until his death in office. Crowninshield was born in Salem, Massachusetts, into a prominent seafaring family. His father, George Crowninshield, initiated the first major sea trade in pepper, and after giving his five boys a nautical education he brought them into his expanded shipping business as...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Easty, Mary [cenotaph] d. September 22, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. There are twenty benches in the memorial, one for each of the victims actively put to death (not counting those who died in prison).
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Emilio, Luis Fenellosa b. December 22, 1844 d. September 16, 1918
Civil War Union Army Officer, Historian. He served as a Captain of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, whose charge on Battery Wagner outside Charleston, South Carolina, is depicted in the movie, "Glory." He served with the regiment throughout the war, joining May 22, 1863, and mustering out March 27, 1865. After the devastating repulse at Fort Wagner left all of the unit's ranking officers, including Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, dead or wounded, Captain Emilio emerged as the 54th...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Endicott, William Crowninshield b. November 19, 1826 d. May 6, 1900
Presidential Cabinet Sectretery. He was appointed as United States Secretary of War by President Grover Cleveland during his first administration, serving from 1885 to 1889. He was later President of Peabody Academy of Science and the Peabody Education Fund, and served as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court. (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

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