tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post2847061135774462179..comments2024-02-09T00:53:59.537-05:00Comments on The Reversed View of Massachusetts: Hillcrest Cemetery (Grafton S. H. Cemetery), Shrewsbury 2-2Shuko Tamaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-10032551596501722402017-11-16T17:40:25.921-05:002017-11-16T17:40:25.921-05:00Good luck getting a copy or any information regard...Good luck getting a copy or any information regarding the treatment of the patients. The only good record kept was their dates of death which I find rather bazaar. My great, great grandfather is buried at Hillside along with a row of others who died that same year, 1919. He was incarcerated at Worcester's Insane Asylum for reasons unknown to anyone, an Italian immigrant & stone cutter. I wonder if diphtheria was the cause of so many deaths in the years 1919 - 1922? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-15411710415846883432012-08-18T09:25:08.224-04:002012-08-18T09:25:08.224-04:00Hi Pat H.,
Thank you for the detailed insight ove...Hi Pat H.,<br /><br />Thank you for the detailed insight over the various practices in MA asylums. If they can build a memorial with names and DOB, I also think they kept a good record of the patients.<br /><br />How do you know those info? I am also interested in knowing those various practices and procedures of those asylums.<br /><br />ShukoShuko Tamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-9012495879098819852012-08-17T18:53:17.136-04:002012-08-17T18:53:17.136-04:00Grafton State Hospitals burial practices may seem ...Grafton State Hospitals burial practices may seem a bit cold, as in just using numbers and not names, but, they were one of the very few asylums that actually buried every unwanted/unclaimed patient. Many of the asylums in New England held a body for only 72 hours, and if unclaimed, gave the bodies to medical institutions for dissection. The older patient burial ground at Worcester State Hospital is so much more horrendous then most, given the fact that patients from just 30 or so years ago have nothing but iron fence rods stuck over their graves. At least in Grafton they kept a record.Pat H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-66721793764219560202012-05-21T17:37:13.060-04:002012-05-21T17:37:13.060-04:00Hi Dina,
Thank you for visiting my blog.
There a...Hi Dina,<br /><br />Thank you for visiting my blog.<br /><br />There are so many tragedies like this in Massachusetts. I'm trying to figure out why there are so many numbered gravestones in this state.<br /><br />ShukoShuko Tamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-47796687947512897102012-05-21T08:40:05.482-04:002012-05-21T08:40:05.482-04:00This story is so tragic, so sad to think of the pe...This story is so tragic, so sad to think of the people.<br />Thank you for exploring the place and sharing it with us at Taphophile Tragics. <br />Shalom from Jerusalem.Dinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461925401870320466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-17680679261508042132012-05-19T08:53:19.056-04:002012-05-19T08:53:19.056-04:00Hillcrest Cemetery is the cemetery for Grafton Sta...Hillcrest Cemetery is the cemetery for Grafton State Hospital. Prior to the establishment of Hillcrest, the hospital was using a plot in Hope Cemetery.<br /><br />Some mention Hillcrest as "Grafton State Hospital Memorial Cemetery", but the locals seem to stick with the name "Hillcrest".<br /><br />I hope it helps!Shuko Tamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-24858430947717613222012-05-19T06:36:21.683-04:002012-05-19T06:36:21.683-04:00*grin* ... Goodo ... I look forward to perhaps see...*grin* ... Goodo ... I look forward to perhaps seeing your name added to our list. Happy hunting in the meantime.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-78144691945061693182012-05-19T03:32:20.781-04:002012-05-19T03:32:20.781-04:00Forgive my ignorance but I'm confused is there...Forgive my ignorance but I'm confused is there 3 cemeteries for Grafton? Hope, Hillcrest, & is there one on the actual grounds of the hospital itself? Thanks ~ K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-55592338129914437252012-05-18T07:57:32.406-04:002012-05-18T07:57:32.406-04:00Ghh, misspell. Taphophile!Ghh, misspell. Taphophile!Shuko Tamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-47365605881146724122012-05-17T19:32:34.334-04:002012-05-17T19:32:34.334-04:00Hi Julie,
I think I'm a Tahophile! I don'...Hi Julie,<br /><br />I think I'm a Tahophile! I don't know much about meme thing, but I'd love to contribute this week or next week.<br /><br />ShukoShuko Tamaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11359328837313017202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008155291377846718.post-60680921424452770022012-05-16T22:24:58.864-04:002012-05-16T22:24:58.864-04:00Shuko: I am visiting from a link on CaT's blog...Shuko: I am visiting from a link on CaT's blog post about the Waltham Asylum cemetery. http://cat-pictureday.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/person-p46.html<br /><br />I am the host of a meme known as Taphophile Tragics which you may care to find here http://taphophile-tuesday.blogspot.com.au/<br /><br />I wonder if posting to a meme like this is at all of interest to you. I think your interests and my own, and those of other contributors to the meme, are very similar.<br /><br />I would welcome you very warmly were you to decide to visit, and perhaps, contribute either this week or next week.<br /><br />With my warm regards<br /><br />JulieJuliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.com