Damon Cemetery

Damon Cemetery
Chesterfield, Massachusetts

There are seventeen stones here, along with another sixteen smaller stones with no carving intact. The earliest carved stone is from 1837. The latest from 1888.

This description from Mrs. Lederer's transcriptions, page 91:

"Old Cemetery * Same Road *
Huntington Hill Road. (Several miles farther on, halfway down the hill toward Huntington, on an old unused road.)

click on picture for full size	STEPHEN TORREY Died June 1, 1844 æ 62 yrs.	click on picture for full size	HULDAH Wife of Stephen Torrey Died June 11, 1876 æ 83 ys 6 ms 17 ds AT REST

click on picture for full size	JOSEPH TORREY DIED Aug 26, 1845 æ 93 yrs.	click on picture for full size	MARY Wife of Joseph Torrey died May 25, 1838 aged 83 yrs.

click on picture for full size	ABIEL DAMMON Died May 1, 1837 age 72 yrs.	click on picture for full size	PATIENCE Wife of Abiel Dammon May 24, 1853 aged 84 yrs.

click on picture for full size	JOB TORREY DIED June 27, 1865 age 77 yrs.	click on picture for full size	ARABELL Wife of Job Torrey DIED Sept 27, 1847 æ 59 ys

click on picture for full size	EMMA M. KELSO DAUGHTER OF JOB & CLIMENA TORREY DIED MARCH 13, 1871 æ 21 yrs 9 mos CHARLIE A. CHILD OF JOSEPH & EMMA KELSO died July 23, 1871 3 mos. 3 days	click on picture for full size	Winfield L. son of O.P. & M.A. TORREY DIED Oct 22, 1875 æ 1 mos

click on picture for full size	Harriet WIFE OF LEVI M TILDEN DIED Apr 21, 1862 age 29	click on picture for full size	LILLA I. DIED SEPT. 15, 1854 æ 10 mo 21 ds CHARLIE DIED March 16, 1859 æ 2 yrs 5 ms CHILDREN OF Job & Climena TORREY

click on picture for full size	CAROLINE O. Wife of Rufus A. Damon DIED Apr. 11, 1886 æ 63 yrs.	click on picture for full size	MELVIN J. DIED Sept 27, 1887 æ 5 mos MYRON L. DIED July 14, 1884 æ 4 mos CHILDREN OF CJ & SS DAMON

click on picture for full size	SARAH T. Wife of Robert Damon Died Dec 19, 1857 æ 58 yrs.	click on picture for full size	CHARLES J. DAMON Died Mar 12, 1888 æ 32 yrs.

		click on picture for full size	Nahum Shaw Died Jan. 11, 1869 æ 52 yrs. 7 mos.

click on picture for full size	click on picture for full size	click on picture for full size	A stone that seems to have toppled over. There are no apparent carvings on this stone.

The carvings on these small stones, if they ever existed, are gone. The small shallow depressions in the ground seems to indicate that these may have been the graves of children.	click on picture for full size	click on picture for full size	A flag in a "G.A.R." holder, seemingly indicating that a civil war veteran was buried here. But small stones and the closeness of them seem to show that children could be buried here.