Find A Grave - Essex County

Bradstreet (Dudley), Anne b. 1612 d. September 16, 1672
Poet. Born Anne Dudley to nonconformist parents Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke Dudley in Northampton, England. Her father was the steward for the Earl of Lincoln and afforded his daughter an unusually complete education. About 1620 she married Simon Bradstreet, her father's assistant. On March 29, 1630, Bradstreet and her family sailed for the New World. After several years, they finally settled on a farm in North Andover, Massachusetts in 1644. Simon Bradstreet became a judge, royal councilor...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, 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
Broaca, John b. October 3, 1909 d. May 16, 1985
Major League Baseball Player. The New York Yankees right-hander, signed off the campus of Yale University in 1933, made a big splash a year later when he pitched a three-hitter in his debut and a one-hitter in his next outing. He was 12-9 with a 4.16 earned run average and 13 complete games in 24 starts as a rookie. He followed that with 15-7, a 3.58 ERA for 201 innings pitched and 14 complete games. In 1936, he worked 206 innings while compiling a 12-7 record, a 4.24 ERA and 12 complete games...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Brown, Henry Willis b. July 5, 1816 d. October 25, 1892
Civil War Union Army Officer. Commissioned as Colonel and commander of the 3rd New Jersey Infantry. Served with distinction as a regimental commander in the famed First New Jersey Brigade. He commanded the brigade itself in the Battle of Chancellorsville (in the absence of its normal commander) and the Battle of the Wilderness (where he was wounded). Despite is wholly creditable battle record, his desire to be a General grated against superior officers, and he was discharged after his...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Central Cemetery, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section 4, Lot 16
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
Capp (Caplin), Al (Alfred Gerald) b. September 28, 1909 d. November 5, 1979
Cartoonist. Al Capp created the cartoon strip Li'l Abner during the early stages of the Great Depression in 1934. It would last for 43 years well beyond the Vietnam War until 1977 when its creator retired taking the entire hillbillyYokum family from mythical Dogpatch USA with him...Abner, Daisy Mae, Manmy, Pappy Yokum, Marryin Sam, Sadie Hawkins, Sir Cecil, Lady Cesspool, Hairless Joe, Lonesome Polecat, Fearless Fosdick, the Shmoos and the ultimate jinx Joe Btfsplk with his overhead black...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Mount Prospect Cemetery, Amesbury, 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
Chandler, Henry Flint b. September 26, 1835 d. November 16, 1906
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Sergeant in the Union Army in Company E, 59th Massachusetts Infantry. His was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on June 17, 1864 at Petersburg, Virginia. His citation reads "Though seriously wounded in a bayonet charge and directed to go to the rear, he declined to do so, but remained with his regiment and helped to carry the breast-works." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
West Parish Garden Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Section 2, Lot 29
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
Cohen, Morris b. 1911 d. May 27, 2005
Scientist. He earned his S.B. degree in metallurgy in 1933 and his Sc.D. in 1936 both at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a member of their faculty in 1937. He worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. He and his colleagues developed fuel rods fo Enrico Fermi's reactor at the University of Chicago. He was awarded by President Jimmy Carter, the National Medal of Science, in 1977 for his research on steel hardening. He was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1987 for...[Read More] (Bio by: Genet)
Temple Sinai Cemetery, Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Connery, Lawrence J. b. October 17, 1895 d. October 19, 1941
US Congressman. In 1937, he was secretary to his brother, Congressman William P. Connery, Jr. when he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his brother's death. He was reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses serving until his death in office. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Saint Marys Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Connery Jr., William Patrick b. August 24, 1888 d. June 15, 1937
US Congressman. He served in the United States Army during World War I. He was a elected to represent Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1923 to 1937.
Saint Marys Cemetery, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
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
Cronin, Paul William b. March 14, 1938 d. April 5, 1997
US Congressman. Elected to represent Massachusetts's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving in 1973 an 1975. He was defeated in 1974 and 1992. Also served as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969, and Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts in 1968 and 1972. (Bio by: K)
Spring Grove Cemetery, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
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

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