Shirley Shaker Cemetery
Also known as Shaker Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
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Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523 United StatesCoordinates: 42.52407, -71.65147 - Cemetery ID:
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In 1908, the three remaining Shaker sisters moved to the Shaker community in Harvard and sold the land to the state of Massachusetts, which originally used it as an Industrial School for Boys.
In 1925, Sister Josephine Jilson was the last burial in this cemetery.
In 1927, as part of a movement to replace markers with a monument, the Shaker Central Ministry removed all the markers and replaced them with one large granite monument. The plaque on the monument says "Erected by the United Society of Shakers to honor the memory of the members interred in this lot, 1792 to 1925." The cemetery area is surrounded by a 3 metal rods with concrete posts fence.
The town of Lancaster lists the cemetery on State Road. It is approximately 1 mile from the intersection of Shirley Road & State Road in Lancaster on the west hand side, about 100 feet up a hill.
MACRIS LAN.806 lists the cemetery on Harvard Road (same road as State but from the Shirley end)
The burials listed are from "Birth, Marriage, Death Register and Epitaphs of Lancaster" edited by Henry S Nourse, Lancaster, 1890; "Inscriptions from Burial Grounds of the Nashaway Towns" edited by Esther K Whitcomb 1989; "The History of the Town of Shirley Massachusetts...to 1882" by Seth Chandler, 1882, the "Vital Records of Shirley to 1850" and the Massachusetts Vital Records on-line at NEHGS. Markers with only initials are not listed.
NOTE: This cemetery is located on the grounds of the Massachusetts Correctional Institute Shirley/Lancaster. Access may be limited. There is no sign to indicate the cemetery's location.
In 1908, the three remaining Shaker sisters moved to the Shaker community in Harvard and sold the land to the state of Massachusetts, which originally used it as an Industrial School for Boys.
In 1925, Sister Josephine Jilson was the last burial in this cemetery.
In 1927, as part of a movement to replace markers with a monument, the Shaker Central Ministry removed all the markers and replaced them with one large granite monument. The plaque on the monument says "Erected by the United Society of Shakers to honor the memory of the members interred in this lot, 1792 to 1925." The cemetery area is surrounded by a 3 metal rods with concrete posts fence.
The town of Lancaster lists the cemetery on State Road. It is approximately 1 mile from the intersection of Shirley Road & State Road in Lancaster on the west hand side, about 100 feet up a hill.
MACRIS LAN.806 lists the cemetery on Harvard Road (same road as State but from the Shirley end)
The burials listed are from "Birth, Marriage, Death Register and Epitaphs of Lancaster" edited by Henry S Nourse, Lancaster, 1890; "Inscriptions from Burial Grounds of the Nashaway Towns" edited by Esther K Whitcomb 1989; "The History of the Town of Shirley Massachusetts...to 1882" by Seth Chandler, 1882, the "Vital Records of Shirley to 1850" and the Massachusetts Vital Records on-line at NEHGS. Markers with only initials are not listed.
NOTE: This cemetery is located on the grounds of the Massachusetts Correctional Institute Shirley/Lancaster. Access may be limited. There is no sign to indicate the cemetery's location.
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- Added: 11 Mar 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2533203
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