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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 .
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)
The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [1] In the 19th century, Jamaica Plain became one of the first streetcar suburbs in America and home to a significant portion of Boston's Emerald Necklace of parks, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
West Roxbury Jewish [45] [46] [2] St. Joseph Cemetery: 1888 West Roxbury Non-Sectarian ~200 acres [47] Fairview Cemetery: 1893 Hyde Park: Municipal [48] [2] New Calvary Cemetery 1899 Mattapan Non-Sectarian [36] [2] St. Michael Cemetery 1905 Jamaica Plain / Roslindale / Mattapan Non-Sectarian [49] [2] Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries: 1920s West ...
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.
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 ...
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.
According to The Boston Globe, "the Baker Street cemeteries are home to some of the city's most striking, albeit endangered, examples of historic religious architecture.. Dotting the road are 10 chapel buildings about the size of one-room schoolhouses, perfectly rendered synagogues in miniature, with glorious stained glass, vaulted ceilings, ornate chandeliers, oak pulpits, and other vestiges ...