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Recovered, Restored, Reset David Wight’s gravestone was discovered facedown in Old Parish Cemetery. The beautiful stone was carefully...

As most Americans know, early on the morning of April 19, 1775, British soldiers and armed colonists exchanged fire in the Massachusetts...

Devoted Pastor and Colonial War Veteran Born on October 17, 1711, and baptized in Charlestown where his father, Benjamin, was a...

Caleb Ellis was born in South Dedham on February 8, 1818. His parents were Richard and Abigail Ellis. On November 30, 1854, he married...

Last Known Burial in Old Parish Cemetery With the opening of Highland Cemetery, families began to purchase lots there. As the 20th...

George H. Morse is a familiar name to many in Norwood. Born on February 12, 1834, to Joseph and Milley E. (Dean) Morse, he was descended...

Maria E. Guild (1815-1898) Mark Guild (1806-1868) Maria E. Guild was born in Boston on October 17, 1815, the only daughter of Jacob and...

Simon Gould (c. 1765-1823) Hannah Gould (1768-1818) Joel Everett (1785-1810) According to the research of Jim Blachowicz (who wrote the...

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...

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...

Ebenezer Everett, the son of Deacon John Everett, was born on August 5, 1707. He married Joanna Stevens in March of 1734 in North...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...