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Mary Collins (1920–2010), first lady of Boston (1960–68) Paul A. Dever (1903–1958), Governor of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Attorney General [4] John Joseph Douglass (1873–1939), Massachusetts State Representative (1899, 1900, 1906, and 1913), member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1925–35)
Pages in category "Burials at St. Joseph Cemetery (West Roxbury, Massachusetts)" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Westerly Burial Ground (also known as Westerly Burying Ground) [2] is an historic cemetery on Centre Street in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1683, it is Boston's seventh-oldest cemetery, and where the first settlers of the West Roxbury area are buried.
West Roxbury Non-Sectarian [41] [2] Boston United Hand in Hand Cemetery: 1875 West Roxbury / Dedham: Jewish [42] [43] [2] Mount Benedict Cemetery 1879 West Roxbury Non-Sectarian [36] [44] [2] Grove Street Cemeteries 1881 West Roxbury Jewish [45] [46] [2] St. Joseph Cemetery: 1888 West Roxbury Non-Sectarian ~200 acres [47] Fairview Cemetery ...
The entry plaque to the cemetery reads in part: "The oldest gravestone, from 1691, commemorates James and Merriam Draper, members of a prominent West Roxbury family." The year 1691 is incorrect; James died 13 July 1697 and his widow Miriam died the following January, which correctly reads "January 1697" on the marker, but technically should ...
St. Joseph Catholic Church was a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, serving the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The parish was established in 1845, and a church was built in the same year.
West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bordered by Roslindale and Jamaica Plain to the northeast, the village of Chestnut Hill and the town of Brookline to the north, the city of Newton to the northwest, the towns of Dedham and Needham to the southwest, and Hyde Park to the southeast.
Holy Name Church in West Roxbury is a Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Boston.. Among the largest and most distinguished buildings in the western section of Boston, the imposing Romanesque Revival church dominates the rotary where it is located and provides an interesting contrast to the Gothic St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church, a mile down Centre Street.