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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chester Holbrook Comey was born on February 22, 1832, in Foxboro, Massachusetts. He was educated at Pierce Academy in Middleboro, and at ...

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...

All 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...

Azubah Gay (1738-1741) Seth Gay (1742-1752) Azubah (Thorp) Gay (1702-1773) Timothy Gay (1703-1793) The earliest gravestone found in Old P...

Rev. Alfred Bassett was the first pastor of the First Universalist Society of South Dedham which was organized on October 22, 1827 when a...

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,” ...

Born 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...

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...

Everyone is familiar with Norwood’s post office; it has been serving the community well from the same location since the 1930s. But, the ...

The youngest child of Rev. Jabez Chickering and his wife Hannah Balch Chickering (See June 6, 2020, post), Hannah Chickering was born in ...

Dr. 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 ...

Among those from South Dedham who volunteered to serve in the Civil War were three brothers: Charles, Benjamin, and Eugene Phipps. Their ...

This 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 ...

Born in Vermont in 1819, educated at the University of Vermont and the Andover Theological Seminary, Rev. Moses McLellan Colburn was inst...

“...one of the most picturesque characters who ever brightened the life of our village.”