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This project is for all those buried in the Meetinghouse Cemetery, Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
The cemetery is located on 51 Mountain Road and is also called Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery.
From The Landmark:
The first meetinghouse in Princeton was built in 1762 and the first burial ground and the town common were established in 1768. Meeting House Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 10, 2006 along with the Princeton center area, which includes the town common.
Grave stones in Meetinghouse Cemetery include those of Martha Keyes, mother of four-year-old Lucy Keyes, the legendary “Lost Child of the Mountain” who disappeared on Wachusett Mountain in April 1755 while following her sisters to a nearby lake. The cemetery has many old slate gravestones that provide a historical record of the town’s early inhabitants. Buried here are the Negro servants of the Honorable Moses Gill, and the gravestone of Capt. Elisha Allen who was “inhumanely murdered” in 1793 by Samuel Frost, who beat him to death with a hoe. Many of the early slate gravestone list names of entire families and many children who died during an eighteenth century diphtheria epidemic.
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