Old Burying Ground in Brookline, Massachusetts

Old Burying Ground is a cemetery near Brookline, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Wikidata records 16 notable people buried here, including Francis Channing Barlow, Edward Atkinson and George Barrell Emerson. The nearest funeral home we know of is Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home in Brookline, about 0.6 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 132 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Suffolk County dates to 1659. 3 of the 52 listings in Suffolk County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Brookline. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 3 physicians, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 scientist, 1 writer.

• Francis Channing Barlow1834-1896
  Lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War
• Edward Atkinson1827-1905
  United States businessman and economist
• George Barrell Emerson1797-1881
  United States educator and botanist
• Barnas Sears1802-1880
  President of Brown University
• Zabdiel Boylston1679-1766
  American physician and the first inoculator for smallpox in the United States
• Thomas Aspinwall1786-1876
  American diplomat and literary agent
• Almira Penneman Barlow1808-1864
• Anne Lake1663-1737
  12 Oct 1663 - 29 Mar 1737
• Augustine Shurtleff1828-1901
  American physician and scientific collector
• John Parker1757-1840
  1757 - 1840
• John Pierce1773-1849
  American reverend
• Mehitable May Dawes1793-1882

People whose Wikidata entry gives Old Burying Ground as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

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• Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Brookline · (617) 277-7652
  0.6 mi
• Mann and Rodgers Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 522-2500
  0.9 mi
• Stanetsky Memorial Chapel

  Funeral chapel · Brookline · (617) 232-9300
  1.0 mi
• Levine Chapels

  Funeral home · Brookline · (617) 277-8300
  1.4 mi
• Lehman, Reen & McNamara Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Brighton · (617) 782-1000
  1.8 mi
• Brady & Fallon Funeral Service Inc

  Funeral home · Boston · (617) 524-0861
  2.0 mi

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