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From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Taft Cemetery Uxbridge
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:21:47 -0400
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Hi Jon -

Where was the Taft Farm?

I found a cemetery on the topozone map right where you said
in your message. It is just marked *cem*, with no name.

The map shows a few cemeteries in this area. One on Chocolog
just after Chestnut and before Johnson Road, then another on Chocolog
just past the intersection of Johnson Rd. Another one
on Glendale, between Aldrich & the intersection of Elmdale.

Glendale turns into Ironmine Road where there are 3 more
cemeteries marked in the section between Ironstone Road and
Mount Pleasant Road.

All of these cemeteries are just marked *cem* so they must be
small family type lots. There are other cemeteries with names
in this map series, so they must be the larger ones.

In RI there is a project that's been going on since the 1970's to
locate & document all the historical cemeteries in the State.
Is there anything like this project in MA, or is it all done on an
individual city/town basis.

Lisa

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Subject: [MAWORCES] Taft Cemetery Uxbridge


> Hi All,
>
> I am operating strictly from memory here, however, I believe there
is a Taft
> Family burial ground on Johnson Road a short distance from the
intersection
> of Johnson and Chocolog Road and near the old Taft Family Farm. I
can
> remember playing there when I was a kid. We use to "blueberry" all
over those
> woods (swamps). I also think that that was at one point called Taft
Road from
> the Chocolog Road end and Johnson Road from the Aldrich Hill end.
Cedar Swamp
> Pond and Chocolog Pond are both behind the cemetery and through the
swamp.
> In the early 1920s my great grandfather bought the Taft Farm.
>
> Jon Normandin
> Burlington, Vermont
>
> Martin Luther King Jr. said "Our lives begin to end the day we
become
> silent about things that matter."
>
> "We will not be silent."
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