Friends Burial Ground in Marion, Massachusetts

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Marion, Massachusetts, USA

Coordinates: 41.72791, -70.77574
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This is a town-owned cemetery. The earliest burial is not known. This is a Quaker cemetery, and most graves are not marked. A monument here reads:

WITHIN THIS ENCLOSURE

LIE THE REMAINS

OF 326 FRIENDS

200 x 67 FEET

This cemetery is located across the street from the North Marion Cemetery.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as MRN800.

This burial place is referenced to in the book "Vital Records of Rochester, Massachusetts to 1850", Published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, as G.R.12. The town of Marion separated from the town of Rochester in 1852.

This burial place is referenced to in the book "Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts" by Charles M Thatcher as "Records of Cemetery at Handy's Corner Marion - south side of road opposite church".