About Rainsford Island Cemetery
Rainsford Island Cemetery is a church cemetery near Hull, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It lies about 2.5 mi east of Hull. The nearest other listed cemetery is St Marys Cemetary, about 0.7 mi to the northwest. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Hamel-lydon Chapel & Cremation Service Of Ma in Quincy, about 4.3 mi away. It is one of 52 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 86 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.
In use between 1730s and 1898. At least 1,777 interments, including over 100 veterans.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Hull. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Map
42.31094, -70.95553
What Rainsford Island Cemetery offers
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.
Nearby cemeteries
- St Marys CemetaryHull, MACemetery0.7 mi
- Hull CemeteryHull, MACemetery2.8 mi
- Thompson Island CemeterySavin Hill, MACemetery2.9 mi
- Rest Haven CemeteryWinthrop, MACemetery3.0 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors CemeteryQuincy, MAChurch cemetery3.7 mi
- Mount Wollaston CemeteryQuincy, MACemetery4.2 mi
- Union Burying GroundBoston, MACemetery4.3 mi
- Hawes Burying GroundBoston, MACemetery4.3 mi
- Winthrop CemeteryWinthrop, MACemetery4.8 mi
- ADAMS CRYPTQuincy, MACemetery4.8 mi
Funeral homes near Rainsford Island Cemetery
- Hamel-lydon Chapel & Cremation Service Of Ma4.3 miCremation provider · Quincy · (617) 472-5888
- Deware Funeral Home4.3 miFuneral home · Quincy · (617) 472-1137
- Keohane Funeral Home4.4 miFuneral home · Quincy · (617) 773-3551
- O'Maley Funeral Home4.6 miFuneral home · Winthrop · (617) 846-0568
- Ernest P. Caggiano and Son Funeral Home4.6 miFuneral home · Winthrop · (617) 846-8700
- Spencer Funeral Home4.7 miFuneral home · Boston · (617) 268-0855
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