Patricia Fanning4 days ago1 minOriginal Norwood Selectman, Samuel E. Pond (1809-1877)Samuel E. Pond was born on June 6, 1809 in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He married Vina Morse Everett on May 31, 1835 in Dedham. Vina’s paren...
Patricia FanningFeb 192 minNine Months Man, William H. Gay (1840-1919) William Gay was born in South Dedham. He was a cabinet maker by trade and, at the age of 22, on September 12, 1862 he enlisted in the 43r...
Patricia FanningFeb 122 minJoanna (1711-1791) & Ebenezer Everett (1707-1778)Ebenezer Everett, the son of Deacon John Everett, was born on August 5, 1707. He married Joanna Stevens in March of 1734 in North Andover...
Patricia FanningFeb 52 minAlfred Ellis (1833-1919) Alfred Ellis was born on January 13, 1833. He was born into two of the oldest families of the village; his parents were Jesse Ellis (1790...
Patricia FanningJan 292 minRev. Jabez Chickering (1753-1812)Rev. Jabez Chickering was born in that part of Dedham now Dover, on November 4, 1753. His father died when he was 18 days old but his mot...
Patricia FanningJan 221 minChester H. Comey (1832-1881) family & Arthur E. Cummings Chester Holbrook Comey was born on February 22, 1832, in Foxboro, Massachusetts. He was educated at Pierce Academy in Middleboro, and at ...
Patricia FanningJan 152 minWilliam Ellis (1830-1908)William Ellis was born in 1830 in Walpole. He came to South Dedham some years later and married Anna Mariann Hurd (1847-1929) on August 7...
Patricia FanningJan 62 min1890s "Support for the Poor" - Katzenmeier BrothersAll cemeteries have a “free lot” or “town lot,” an area set aside for the burial of those without means. In Old Parish Cemetery, the town...
Patricia FanningJan 11 minEarliest Gravestone in Norwood's Old Parish CemeteryAzubah Gay (1738-1741) Seth Gay (1742-1752) Azubah (Thorp) Gay (1702-1773) Timothy Gay (1703-1793) The earliest gravestone found in Old P...
Patricia FanningDec 25, 20203 minRev. Alfred V. Bassett (1806-1831)Rev. Alfred Bassett was the first pastor of the First Universalist Society of South Dedham which was organized on October 22, 1827 when a...
Patricia FanningDec 18, 20202 minCaptain William Bacon (c.1716-1761)Writing in the 1930s, local historian Win Everett felt that Bacon’s face on this gravestone was “the finest and most human in the yard,” ...
Patricia FanningDec 11, 20201 minDavid H. Corbett (1832-1897) and FamilyBorn in Nova Scotia, in 1832, David H. Corbett was in the United States by the early 1850s. He married Sarah P. McIntosh, who was born in...
Patricia FanningDec 4, 20202 minCaptain William Everett (1757-1802) Sarah Everett (c.1761-1802)May 4, 1802, was a beautiful morning in South Dedham. It was Muster Day – a great holiday. Old soldiers dug out their uniforms – some fro...
Patricia FanningNov 27, 20202 minNorwood’s Postal ServiceEveryone is familiar with Norwood’s post office; it has been serving the community well from the same location since the 1930s. But, the ...
Patricia FanningNov 20, 20202 minHannah Chickering Briggs Fletcher (1802-1876) & John Kingsbury Briggs (1794-1843)The youngest child of Rev. Jabez Chickering and his wife Hannah Balch Chickering (See June 6, 2020, post), Hannah Chickering was born in ...
Patricia FanningNov 13, 20202 minThe Tragic Homicide of Jarvis Gay 1803-1882Dr. Jarvis Gay was a veterinary surgeon who lived on Market Street and was often called out at all hours of day and night. At 78, he was ...
Patricia FanningNov 7, 20203 minThe Phipps Bros.: Civil War to Town Hall Memorial in 156 yearsAmong those from South Dedham who volunteered to serve in the Civil War were three brothers: Charles, Benjamin, and Eugene Phipps. Their ...
Patricia FanningOct 27, 20202 minYour Final Resting Place May not be Your Final Resting Place: The Day, Smith, Winslow RelocationsThis area of the Old Parish Cemetery may appear empty but it did not always look this way. Plots 49, 59, and 60 (front to back) belonged ...
Patricia FanningOct 22, 20201 minMaria Read Colburn (c. 1825-1861)John David Colburn (1857-1858)Born in Vermont in 1819, educated at the University of Vermont and the Andover Theological Seminary, Rev. Moses McLellan Colburn was inst...
Patricia FanningOct 17, 20202 minLemuel Dean 1795-1880“...one of the most picturesque characters who ever brightened the life of our village.”