Find A Grave

Fellows, John Foster b. January 8, 1815 d. July 6, 1887
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Lieutenant Colonel and commander the 17th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. On February 1, 1864, at New Bern, North Carolina, unaware a supporting regiment had withdrawn, he and his regiment were overrun at Batchelder's Creek by superior Confederate forces in an attack ordered by Major General George Pickett. Fellows, eight other officers and eighty-three men of the 17th Massachusetts were captured. Fellows was later exchanged and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Seaview Avenue at Crocus Path
Flint, Rev. Timothy b. July 11, 1780 d. August 16, 1840
Western historian, author, editor, Methodist clergyman. In the years before the U.S.-Mexican War he became a popular chronicler of western expansion into the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. He graduated from Harvard College in 1800 and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, in 1802. Struggling with a fragile health, he moved his family to the Ohio Valley hoping a change of scene and climate would reinvigorate him. This began an intinerant life throughout the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Anemone Path
Foster, Ann b. 1617 d. December 3, 1692
Convicted in Salem Witch Trials. A careful reading of the trial transcripts reveals that Ann resisted confessing to the 'crimes' she was accused of having committed, despite being "put to the question" (i.e., tortured) multiple times over a period of days. However, her resolve broke when her daughter Mary Lacey, similarly accused of witchcraft, accused her own mother of the crime in order to save herself. The transcripts reveal the anguish of a mother attempting to shield her (undeserving)...[Read More] (Bio by: Michael Smith)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Foster, Gideon b. February 24, 1749 d. November 1, 1845
Revolutionary War militia officer/Minuteman. He lived in South Danvers, now the city of Peabody. He was captain of the Danvers Alarm List which answered the call to arms on the morning of April 19, 1775, and marched toward Lexington and Concord. The British retreat became a running fight which the Danvers men joined at Menotomy, now Cambridge. Enraged and harried British soldiers engaged the Americans in hand-to-hand fighting and no quarter was given. Seven Danvers men under Foster's command...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Good, Sarah [cenotaph] d. July 19, 1692
Hanged for being a witch. The actual location of her body is unknown. It was likely cast off in a ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the witchcraft charge.
Cause of death: Hanging
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Cenotaph on a bench outside of cemetery
Goodhue, Benjamin b. September 20, 1748 d. July 28, 1814
Federalist congressman from Massachusetts. He served in the House of Representatives (1789-1796) and in the US Senate (1796-1800). (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Haraden, Capt. Jonathan b. November 11, 1744 d. November 16, 1803
Revolutionary War naval hero. He was the most successful and audacious of the dread Salem Privateers, privately owned vessels commissioned by the infant American government to attack and capture British shipping. At the outbreak of hostilities, Haraden was a merchant captain. He joined the Masachusetts Navy that consisted of two ships, and served as an officer on the Tyrannicide when it captured a larger British vessel. Haraden later commanded the Tyrannicide, but resigned to pursue a career as...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Southeast corner, parrallel to Summer Street
Hathorne, John d. May 10, 1717
He was a magistrate who, along with Jonathan Corwin, presided over the pre-trial examinations in Salem Village (now Danvers, Massachusetts) prior to the actual Salem witch trials. (The judge during the trials was William Stoughton, Lieutenant-Governor of the colony.) Great-great-grandfather of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: By path in middle of cemetery
Higginson III., John b. October 20, 1675 d. April 26, 1718
Minister who came to Naumkeag in or around 1629, and according to legend, changed the Indian name of the place to either Shalom or Salaam (depending on which historian you believe). This was then eventually Anglicized to "Salem" meaning the "City of Peace". (There is no known derivation of Salem being once called "Jerusalem" and then shortened.).
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Holyoke, Dr. Edward Augustus b. August 1, 1728 d. March 31, 1829
Physician, Scientist. An early proponent of innoculation against smallpox, it is estimated he vaccinated 600 persons during his career against the dreaded disease. The son of Harvard College President, the Rev. Edward Holyoke, and Margaret Appleton, he graduated from Harvard in 1746. He taught school for two years before apprenticing himself to a practicing physician for two and a half years. Later, while already a long-practicing physician in Salem, he would receive the first MD awarded by the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Holyoke tomb
Howe, Elizabeth [cenotaph] d. July 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
Jacobs, George [cenotaph] d. August 19, 1692
George Jacobs was born about 1617, probably in England, and was farming near Salem, MA, by the 1640s. He and his wife attended church infrequently, and he was known for his "salty tongue" and quick temper. He was in court in 1677 for striking a man while in a rage. George was accused by his own granddaughter of practicing witchcraft, and arrested on May 10, 1692. He went on trial August 5, and after failing to properly recite the Lord's Prayer (George was illiterate), he was found guilty. On...[Read More]
Cause of death: Hanged
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Lancaster, Bruce b. August 22, 1896 d. June 20, 1963
Author. Best known for his books "The Wide Sleeve of Kwannon," "From Lexington to Liberty," "American Heritage Book of the Revolution" (eleven of the twelve textual chapters), and the juvenile book "Ticonderoga, The Story of a Fort." (Bio by: Laurie)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Lander, Frederick b. December 17, 1821 d. March 2, 1862
Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was a brillant engineer-explorer whom as a Colonel in the US Army, made five transcontinental surveys. When the Civil War began, he was sent in behalf of President Lincoln on a secret mission to Governor Houston of Texas and was appointed Brigadier General in May, 1861. At Edwards Ferry, he was badly wounded but still led an outstanding charge at Blooming Gap. On March 2, 1862, he died unexpectedly of pneumonia. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Loring, George Bailey b. November 18, 1817 d. September 14, 1891
Congressman. A Democrat early in his political career, he switched parties during the Civil War and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881, from Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard College's medical department, he served as a surgeon of the U.S. Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, and was appointed commissioner to revise the U.S. Marine Hospital system in 1849. He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture from 1881 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Martin, Susannah [cenotaph] b. September 30, 1621 d. July 19, 1692
Victim of the Salem Witch Trials. The youngest of four daughters of Richard North and Joan Bartram, her baptism is reported as September 30, 1621 at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England. Her mother died when she was a child and her father married Ursula Scott. In 1639, Richard North immigrated to New England and settled his family at Salisbury, Massachusetts. Susannah married the widower George Martin in 1646 at Salisbury. George and Susannah Martin moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1654. George...[Read More] (Bio by: JR)
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
McIntire, Samuel d. February 6, 1811
Prominent architect from Salem. There is a "McIntire District" and tour showing his great works, especially on Chestnut Street, "The Most Beautiful Street (architecturally) in America." Aged 34 years.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Miller, James b. April 25, 1776 d. July 7, 1851
United States Army Officer. During the War of 1812 he won recognition as the "Hero of Lundy's Lane." A lawyer, he took command of New Hampshire militia before the outbreak of war, but his abilities leading troops were soon noticed and he was commissioned a Major in the regular Army, then quickly promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Captured in 1813, he was soon exchanged and participated in major actions around the Great Lakes, including the capture of Fort Erie and the Battle of Chippawa. During...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
More, Richard d. 1692
Mayflower Pilgrim. He came over on the Mayflower at the age of 9 (or 11) as an indentured servant, rose through the ranks and became a sea-captain who lived in Salem. Died at age 84.
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Morse, Edward Sylvester b. June 18, 1838 d. December 20, 1925
Scientist. He was among a handful of American scientists and educators credited with helping Japan modernize in the Meiji era (late 19th century). On September 28th, 1856, while enrolled at Bethel Academy, he discovered a minute land snail. This discovery would launch him on his career as a natural scientist. In 1859 the Boston Society of Natural History proclaimed Morse's discovery a new species which it named in his honor: Tympanis morsei. He later helped establish the American Naturalist...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob on Gallows Hill)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Laurel Path

Records 1 to 20

Records 21 to 40 (of 65 total matches)

Records 41 to 60