The Pine Grove Cemetery
Middlefield, MA

This 4 acre cemetery on Clark Wright road saw the first burial in late September of 1911 as Richard Sweeney buried his infant daughter. Since that time 250 internments have taken place. This is now the town’s only open cemetery as the older Main Cemetery on Bell Road is full and the ownership records are lost.

The following links are to records that have been recently digitized. I have also made an initial attempt at consolidating this information into a single spread sheet and I have also started a summary of the owners and usage of all the plots. An adjacent 5 acre lot has been recently gifted to the town for future expansion of this cemetery.

All the pre 1989 town cemetery records - with the exception of the 1950 era Pine Grove map - were apparently destroyed by vandals. The present manual records are kept on three maps and in a bound journal. An additional 1994 index, 26 plot deeds, and a collection of burial-transfer permits have been electronically collected for archiving. I have photographed many of the heads stones and are adding those pictures to the on-line “Find-a-Grave” data base.

Howard Knickerbocker / December 2016

1989 Town Report (Cemetery Commissioners) Link

1958 Map – 26.1 MB Link

1989 Map – 3.4 MB Link

1992 Map – 35 MB Link

Journal (77 pages) – 19.9 MB Link

1994 Inventory (25 Pages) – 4.1 MB Link

Deeds (26) – 3.4 MB Link

Burial Permits (142 – Alphabetical Order) – 17.7 MB Link

Preliminary Master List (Alphabetical Order) Link

Preliminary Master List (By Section – Plot Order) Link

Preliminary Owner List (by Section) Link

Find-a-Grave (Pine Grove) - Link

Early Glass Slide Image - Link