Index to Locations
Ashfield Ashfield Plains Cemetery
Bernardston Center Cemetery
Bernardston Town Cemetery
Colrain Chandler Hill Cemetery
Conway Howland Cemetery
Greenfield Federal Street Cemetery
Greenfield Federal Street Cemetery
Greenfield Green River Cemetery
Greenfield North Meadows Cemetery
East Leverett, Leverett East Leverett
Cemetery
Ashfield Plains
Cemetery
Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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Edward Murray Bassett (1863-1948) —
also known as Edward M. Bassett —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., February
7, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 5th District, 1903-05.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., October
7, 1948 (age 85 years, 243
days).
Interment at Ashfield Plains Cemetery.
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Center
Cemetery
Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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Samuel Clesson Allen (1772-1842) —
also known as Samuel C. Allen —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Bernardston, Franklin
County, Mass., January
5, 1772.
Pastor;
lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1806-10; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1812-15, 1831; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1817-29 (6th District 1817-25,
7th District 1825-29); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1829-30.
Congregationalist.
Died in Northfield, Franklin
County, Mass., February
8, 1842 (age 70 years, 34
days).
Interment at Center Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Zebulon Allen and Freedom (Cooley) Allen; married, September
11, 1793, to Sarah Newcomb; married, April
10, 1797, to Mary Hunt; father of Elisha
Hunt Allen; grandfather of William
Fessenden Allen and Frederick
Hobbes Allen; great-grandnephew of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin twice removed of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second cousin once removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Chester
Ashley; second cousin twice removed of William
Pitkin, Albert
Asahel Bliss and Philemon
Bliss; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
H. Warner; third cousin of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin once removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Daniel
Pitkin, Theodore
Davenport, Chester
William Chapin, John
William Allen, William
Alfred Buckingham, James
Samuel Wadsworth, Henry
Titus Backus, George
Washington Wolcott, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott, Edwin
W. Kellogg, Alfred
Wolcott and Samuel
Herbert Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Alfred
Clark Chapin, Abraham
Lincoln Kellogg, Henry
Augustus Wolcott, Arthur
Beebe Chapin, James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden
Chapin; fourth cousin of James
Hillhouse, Jonathan
Brace, Timothy
Pitkin, James
Kilbourne, Amaziah
Brainard and Greene
Carrier Bronson; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Kimberly Brace, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Walter
Booth, Albert
Haller Tracy, Millard
Fillmore, Byron
H. Kilbourn, Leveret
Brainard, Henry
Purdy Day, Edmund
Day and John
Robert Graham Pitkin. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Town
Cemetery
Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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Minnie Ryan Dwight (1873-1957) —
also known as Minnie R. Dwight; Minnie
Ryan —
of Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Hadley, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 22,
1873.
Republican. Newspaper
editor and publisher; member of Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, 1920-34; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Massachusetts, 1928
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business).
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died July 31,
1957 (age 84 years, 39
days).
Interment at Town Cemetery.
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Chandler Hill
Cemetery
Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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Samuel Taggart (1754-1825) —
of Colrain, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Londonderry, Rockingham
County, N.H., March
24, 1754.
Farmer;
minister;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1803-17 (at-large 1803-05, 6th
District 1805-13, at-large 1813-15, 6th District 1815-17).
Presbyterian.
Died in Colrain, Franklin
County, Mass., April
25, 1825 (age 71 years, 32
days).
Interment at Chandler Hill Cemetery.
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Howland
Cemetery
Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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Lincoln Clark (1800-1886) —
of Iowa.
Born in Conway, Franklin
County, Mass., August
9, 1800.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1851-53; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Conway, Franklin
County, Mass., September
16, 1886 (age 86 years, 38
days).
Interment at Howland Cemetery.
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Federal Street
Cemetery
Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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James Church Alvord (1808-1839) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Greenwich (now part of Quabbin Reservoir), Hampshire
County, Mass., April
14, 1808.
Member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1837; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1838; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1839; died in
office 1839.
Died in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., September
27, 1839 (age 31 years, 166
days).
Interment at Federal Street Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Federal Street
Cemetery
Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Joseph Stebbins Lyman (1785-1821) —
of New York.
Born in Northfield, Franklin
County, Mass., February
14, 1785.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from New York 15th District, 1819-21.
Died in Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y., March
21, 1821 (age 36 years, 35
days).
Interment at Federal Street Cemetery.
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Green River
Cemetery
Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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William Barrett Washburn (1820-1887) —
also known as William B. Washburn —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Winchendon, Worcester
County, Mass., January
31, 1820.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1863-71; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1872-74; resigned 1874; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1874-75.
Died suddenly, while seated on the platform at a meeting
of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Affairs, in
Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., October
5, 1887 (age 67 years, 247
days).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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George Grennell Jr. (1786-1877) —
also known as George Grinnell Jr. —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., December
25, 1786.
Whig. Lawyer; Franklin
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1820-28; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1825-27; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1829-39 (7th District 1829-33,
6th District 1833-39); probate judge in Massachusetts, 1849-53; Franklin
County Clerk of Courts, 1853-65; first president, Troy &
Greenfield Railroad.
Died in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., November
19, 1877 (age 90 years, 329
days).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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George Thomas Davis (1810-1877) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Sandwich, Barnstable
County, Mass., January
12, 1810.
Member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1850; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1851-53.
Died in Portland, Cumberland
County, Maine, June 17,
1877 (age 67 years, 156
days).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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John William Haigis (1881-1960) —
also known as John W. Haigis —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Turners Falls, Montague, Franklin
County, Mass., July 31,
1881.
Republican. Founder, editor, and publisher of the Greenfield
Recorder newspaper;
banker;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1909-12; member of Massachusetts
state senate Franklin & Hampshire District, 1915-16, 1923-26; Massachusetts
state treasurer, 1929-30; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1934; candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Massachusetts, 1940
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker);
trustee of the University of Massachusetts, 1940-56; owner and
operator of radio
station WHAI.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen.
Died in 1960
(age about
78 years).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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William Fowler Grinnell (1831-1912) —
also known as William F. Grinnell —
of New York.
Born in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., June 2,
1831.
U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) in St. Etienne, 1877-78; U.S. Consul in Bremen, 1878-82; Bradford, 1882-89; Manchester, 1889-99.
Died in Paris, France,
December
11, 1912 (age 81 years, 192
days).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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Daniel Howe Newton (1827-1911) —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.; Holyoke, Hampden
County, Mass.
Born in Hubbardston, Worcester
County, Mass., June 22,
1827.
Paper
mill business; Franklin
County Treasurer, 1862-65; member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1869; president, Hoosac Tunnel &
Wilmington Railroad
Co., 1887-1905.
Died in Brookline, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 19,
1911 (age 83 years, 331
days).
Interment at Green River Cemetery.
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North Meadows
Cemetery
711 Colrain Road
Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
Founded 1820
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Frank Gerrett (1857-1933) —
of Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass.
Born in Greenfield, Franklin
County, Mass., February
4, 1857.
Republican. Farmer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1901-03; member of Massachusetts
state senate Franklin & Hampshire District, 1905-06.
Died July 29,
1933 (age 76 years, 175
days).
Interment at North Meadows Cemetery.
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East Leverett
Cemetery
East Leverett, Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts
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