Friday, August 5, 2011

Blandford Cemeteries

  1. Hill Cemetery (aka Centre Cemetery) 1741
    North Street, Blandford, MA 01008
    1/4 mile north of Otis Stage Road
    574 graves listed on FindAGrave.com
  2. Blandford Cemetery (aka Old Burying Ground)
    Otis Stage Road Blandford
    at Main Street
    listed on FindAGrave.com
    74 graves listed on FindAGrave.com
  3. North Blandford Cemetery
    Blair Road, Blandford, MA 01008
    2 miles north of Otis Stage Road
    104 graves listed on FindAGrave.com

Additional Blandford Cemeteries listed on CemeteryFind.com:
Gilbert Tracy Gravesite (1833)
Hastings Family Cemetery
Henry B. Wadham Gravesite (1812)
Old Sperry Road Cemetery
Stannard Cemetery (1800)*

*Horace Lorenzo Hastings, born 26 November, 1831, in Blandford, Mass. ; died 21 October, 1899 in Goshen, Mass ; married 12 Oct 1853, Harriet Frances Barnett of Moretown, Vermont. Four children were born, 3 in Providence, RI, and 1 in Lawrence, Mass. A minister and tract publisher, best known for his hymn writing.

Henry Beebe Wadhams, son of Beebe and Charlotte (Ives) Wadhams, born 9 March, 1805, in Goshen, Conn. ; died in September, 1892, in Richmond, Mass.; married 16 July. 1827, Hannah Scott of Blandford, Mass. Three children were born in Goshen.


There is a Sperry Road, east of the Turnpike, below the Elementary School.


I believe Stannard Cemetery is listed in error. The only Stannard I have found is in Caledonia County, Vermont.

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