Narrative History
This burying ground marks the location of Upton’s first meeting house, constructed here in 1735 when the town was incorporated and a ground measuring 200 by 500 feet was set aside. After growing Objections from residents of the town’s northern sections, the meetinghouse was re-located to Central Square in Upton Center in the 1770s. This burying ground remained in use only sporadically after the Early 19th century when the burying grounds in Upton Center were opened. On Walling’s map of 1851, it is noted as simply a graveyard and in 1870 Beers atlas notes it as a cemetery on the road that formerly Extended Mendon Road farther to the east. By 1898 that roadway no longer appeared on the Richards map. At least twenty-five different family names are represented with marked burials here. Among them are Holbrook, Taft, Pierce, Burrows, Fisk, Fish, Putnam, Batchellor, Baker, Russell, Wood, and Wright. One socially important family buried here is that of Rev. Elisha Fish (d. 1795), represented with stones dating from 1775 through 1795.
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