Torrey Cemetery
Chesterfield, Massachusetts
The Torrey Cemetery is located 1.9 miles down South Road from the center of Chesterfield. Just before the small golf course on the right hand side of the street as heading from town, there is a small path leading into the woods and the cemetery.
| Looking down the old road from South Road towards the Torrey Cemetery. The thick woods close in around the damp trail leading to the graveyard. |  click on picture for full size | Looking into the Northwest corner where the large birch tree (?) overhangs Timothy and Newman's graves. |
| Looking into the Southeast corner. A broken stone, with no markings still apparent, lies just before the very large rhododendren bush that hugs the east side of the cemetery. |  click on picture for full size | Looking back into the Southwest corner. The fallen stone of Maria B. can be seen just in from of the rhododendren. To the immediate right of Maria's stone, there is an unmarked , very small stone set into the earth. There is a base piece for a seemingly missing stone located just outside the fence in this corner. |
 click on picture for full size | I have drawn a rough sketch of the relative positions of the headstones and the orientation of the entire cemetery. This drawing is NOT done to scale. South Street, Chesterfield is located about 200 yards to the east up the old road. | ||
| Here are pictures of each stone in the cemetery, with transcriptions of the carvings on each. | |||
 click on picture for full size | FRANCIS O. TORREY Aug 18, 1873 Aug 12, 1944 |  click on picture for full size | EMERSON W. TORREY Member of Co. A 27 Regt. Mass. Volts. Died Feb. 15, 1895 ae 61 yrs |
 click on picture for full size | SARAH M. Wife of EMERSON W. TORREY DIED Dec. 8. 1914, ae 74 yrs. |  click on picture for full size | CYNTHA M. |
 click on picture for full size | ORRIN TORREY DIED July 18, 1874 aged 68 yrs. |  click on picture for full size | OLIVE Wife of Orrin Torrey Died Sept 24, 1845 aged 33 yrs. - GEORGE F. their son, Died Aug 20, 1845, aged 5 y'rs, 7 mo's |
 click on picture for full size | PERSIS Wife of Orrin Torrey Died July 16, 1847 ae 35 yrs. Blessed are the dead Which die in the Lord |  click on picture for full size | NEWMAN ENGRAM Died Apr. 26 1887 ae 72 yrs. ASENATH HIS WIFE DIED Aug 2, 1896 ae 72 YRS. 8 MOS. |
 click on picture for full size | JARAD. son of Newman & Asenuth ENGRAM died Apr 21, 1838 ae 2 yrs |  click on picture for full size | NELLIE daughter of Cyrus & Maria WITHERELL DIED Apr 28, 1864 ae 2 yrs, 5 mos 2 days |
 click on picture for full size | MARIA B. WIFE OF CYRUS WITHERELL DIED July 19, 1885 ae 45 yrs 7 mos |  click on picture for full size | TIMOTHY ENGRAM DIED Dec 3, 1839 aged 85 yrs |
 click on picture for full size | OUR FATHER JOEL ENGRAM DIED April 13, 1880 aged 90 yrs 11 mos., 3 days gone but not forgotten |  click on picture for full size | PRISCILLA wife of Timothy Engram died Oct. 4, 1848. aged 89 yrs. |
 click on picture for full size | OUR MOTHER EUNICE D. WIFE OF JOEL ENGRAM DIED March 10, 1870 aged 81 yrs 17 days gone but not forgotten |
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| Photos © 2001 David Torrey transcriptions by Stephanie Torrey |