Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mt. Auburn Cemetery

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Mt. Auburn Cemetery, which is located in Middlesex County, was founded in 1831 by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society as the first in a national movement toward creating ""rural"" cemeteries. The cemetery is now a haven in the midst of the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This collection gathers information from headstones in the cemetery. In addition to providing the decedent's name, it includes, where available, birth date, birthplace, death date, death location, relationship information (i.e., wife of or brother of), military service, occupation, and age. With this update, information regarding more than ten thousand individuals buried in the cemetery is now available.

Sources Legere, Lyn. Massachusetts: Middlesex County, Cambridge, Mt. Auburn Cemetery. [database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2001. Original data: Information extracted from the cemetery headstones at Massachusetts: Mt. Auburn Cemtery, Middlesex County.

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