Eastham Cove Burying Ground

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Cove Burying Ground Handout

Possible Unmarked Graves of Adults in Cove up to 1730

Eastham Vital Records - Deaths up to 1750

Cove Discoveries 2004 - 2009

Below is a chronological listing of monuments to early Eastham settlers
followed by a chronological listing of original gravestones.

Note - All gravestones are cleaned as needed by the Eastham Cemetery Commission.
As of 2008, cleaning dates are no longer reported on the individual gravestone pages.

Monuments

  Name Died Age  
  Richard Sparrow
& Pandora Sparrow
& Jonathan Sparrow
& Rebecca (Bangs) Sparrow
& Hannah (Prince) Sparrow (photo)

(Sparrow monument erected 1876)
1660 - January 8






adult






 
  Richard Higgins (photo)
(Higgins plaque erected 1966
in Town Hall)
about 1675

adult

 
  Constance Hopkins Snow
& Nicholas Snow (photo)

(Snow monument erected 1966)
1677

72

 
  Joseph Rogers (photo)
(Rogers monument erected 1966)
1678

71 (75?)

 
  John Doane (photo)
(Doane monument erected 1907)
1685 - February 1

90

 
  John Doane (photo)
(Doane homesite marker erected
1869 & plaque erected 1994 -
located in Eastham a few miles
north of Cove Cem.)
 
  Ralph Smith (photo)
(Smith monument erected 1946)
1685

75

 
  Giles Hopkins (photo)
(Hopkins monument erected 1966)
1690

83

 
  First Encounter Monument (photo)
(erected in 1920 - located at
First Encounter Beach a few
miles away from Cove Cem.)
 


Gravestones

  Name Died Age  
  Thomas Mulford (photo) 1706 - June 8 66  
  Jonathan Sparrow (photo) 1706/7 - March 21 73  
  Samuel Hedge (photo) 1709 - December 13 5  
  Joshua Bangs 1709/10 - January 13 64  
  Marcy Freeman (photo) 1711 - September 28 80  
  Daniel Doane (photo) 1712 - December 20 76  
  Mercy (Southworth) Freeman (photo) 1712 - November 25 74  
  Samuel Freeman (photo) 1712 - November 20 75  
  Thankful Higins (photo) 1712 - July 13 20  
  Thankfull Hedge (photo) 1713 - April 14 13  
  Benjamin Paine (photo) 1713 - December 15 15  
  Mary Hedge (photo) 1714 - May 17 12  
  Samuel Hedge (photo) 1714 - May 19 38  
  Bennet Paine (photo) 1716 - May 30 45  
  Benjamin Paine (photo) 1716/17 - January 14 2  
  Samuel Treat (photo) 1716/17 - March 18 69  
  Treat Boundary Marker (photo)
(Property marker located less than
a mile away from Cove Cem.)
 
  Thomas Lewes (photo) 1718 - March 19 64  
  Edmond Freeman (photo) 1718/9 - February 11 63  
  John Freeman (photo) 1719 - October 28 98  
  Jamima Mulford (photo) 1723 - May 8 57  
  John Mulford (photo) 1730 - April 20 59  
  George Brown (photo) circa 1735 - January 18 51  
  Mercy Cole (photo) 1735 - September 25 63  
  Daniel Cole (photo) 1736 - June 15 70  
  Barnabas Freman (photo) 1736 - October 8 3  
  Marcy (Mercy) Freman (photo) 1736 - November 5 6  
  Mary Cobb (photo) 1736/7 ?  
  Samuel Brown (photo) 1739 - May 3 48  
  Edward Knowles (photo) 1740 - November 16 70  
  Samuel Freeman (photo) 1742 - January 30 82  
  Joshua Doane (photo) 1743 - August 22 3  
  Elizabeth Higgins (photo) 1744 - December 63  
  Mary Knowls (photo) 1745 - November 7 73  
  Benjamin Webb (photo) 1746 - August 21 51  
  Ebenezer Harding (photo) 1747 - June 27 35  
  David Doane (photo) 1748 - November 18 74  
  Hannah Snow (photo) 1750 - August 3 37  
  Jabez Snow (photo) 1750 - October 14 82  
  Samuel Freeman (photo) 1751 - May 30 63  
  Hannah Remick (photo) 1751 - July 7 54  
  Bethiah Atwood (photo) 1752 - January 2 63  
  James Freeman (photo) 1754 - July 22 35  
  John Knowles (photo) 1757 - November 3 85  
  Mary Freeman (photo) 1770 - March 5 76  
  unidentified slate grave marker
S1-2005 (photo)

(probably Benjamin Webb d1746)
 
  unidentified slate grave marker
S2-2005 (photo)

(possibly Hannah Remick d1751)
 
  unidentified slate grave marker
S3-2005 (photo)

(possibly Jabez Snow d1750)
 
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker(F1-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F2-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F3-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F4-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F5-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F6-2005)(photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F7-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F8-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F9-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F10-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F11-2005) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F12-2007) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F13-2008) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F14-2008) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F15-2008) (photo)  
  unidentified fieldstone grave marker (F16-2008) (photo)  

Eastham Vital Records - Deaths up to 1699
Eastham Vital Records - Deaths 1700 - 1719
Eastham Vital Records - Deaths 1720 - 1729
Eastham Vital Records - Deaths 1730 - 1750
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