North Grosvenordale Cemetery (North Grosvenor)

North Grosvenordale Cemetery (also known as North Grosvenor Cemetery)

100 Main Street, North Grosvenor Dale   0.7 acres
GPS Latitude 41.98515 Longitude -71.89986

Land records do not show any deeds for this cemetery; it does state the acreage. According to the Hale Collection, the earliest burial was the infant son of Lyman and Sarah P. Whittemore who died April 10, 1831, followed by his father who died December 12, 1833, at age 27.

Military interred:
–Civil War

• James H. Chadwick: Co. H, 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; wounded at Antietam, Maryland in September 1862 and discharged October 1862; Sargent in Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Department of Massachusetts
• Leander J. Wilbur: Co, I, 1st Connecticut Calvary, imprisoned at Cedar Creek, VA, Nov 1864, paroled and mustered out August 1865; his grandson Frank E. Upham received his military pension in 1895
• William J. Arnold: Co. D, 18th Connecticut Infantry
• John E. Darling: Co. F, 60th Massachusetts Infantry Volunteer Militia

• James M. Green: Co. I, Connecticut Heavy Artillery
• Rufus Green: Co. D, 18th Connecticut Infantry; imprisoned June 1863 in Winchester, VA; paroled in July 1863; discharged Jun 1865

–War of 1812

• Barney Buck: Private in the 11th Militia Regiment (Crankshaw, p. 396)
• John Chafee: Private in the 11th Militia Regiment (Crankshaw, p. 396)
• Joseph Seaver: Captain Enos Goss’s Company of Mendon, Lt. Col. W. Hasting’s Regiment, Massachusetts Militia

Veterans from other wars are also buried here; there is no available compiled listing.

The Dike Cemetery in the document section below may help in locating a tombstone; this is the original Hale’s List of Cemetery Inscriptions which records the gravestone locations as the person who collected the information walked through the cemetery.

Ida Ransom, July 2024

Documents:
Hale