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*** [[Angelina Grimké]] (1805–1879), abolitionist and women's rights advocate<ref name=james/>
*** [[Angelina Grimké]] (1805–1879), abolitionist and women's rights advocate<ref name=james/>
*** [[Sarah Moore Grimké]] (1792–1873), abolitionist and women's right advocate<ref name=james>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|quote=sarah grimke mount hope.|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|first1=Edward T.|last1=James|first2=Janet Wilson|last2=James|first3=Paul S.|last3=Boyer|first4=Radcliffe|last4=College|date=August 21, 1971|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/99 99]|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
*** [[Sarah Moore Grimké]] (1792–1873), abolitionist and women's right advocate<ref name=james>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|quote=sarah grimke mount hope.|title=Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary|first1=Edward T.|last1=James|first2=Janet Wilson|last2=James|first3=Paul S.|last3=Boyer|first4=Radcliffe|last4=College|date=August 21, 1971|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/99 99]|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
** [[Rudolf Haffenreffer]] (1847–1929), German-American brewer,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boston.gov/news/stories-mount-hope-rudolf-haffenreffer/|title=Stories from Mount Hope: Rudof Haffenreffer|date=March 8, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Rudolf Haffenreffer]] (1847–1929), German-American brewer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boston.gov/news/stories-mount-hope-rudolf-haffenreffer/|title=Stories from Mount Hope: Rudof Haffenreffer|date=March 8, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Roland Hayes]] (1887–1977), lyric tenor, first African American to sing at [[Carnegie Hall]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9wMBQAAQBAJ&q=roland+hayes+mount+hope&pg=PA311|title=Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor|first1=Christopher A.|last1=Brooks|first2=Robert|last2=Sims|year=2014|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|page=311|isbn=978-0253015396|via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[Roland Hayes]] (1887–1977), lyric tenor, first African American to sing at [[Carnegie Hall]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9wMBQAAQBAJ&q=roland+hayes+mount+hope&pg=PA311|title=Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor|first1=Christopher A.|last1=Brooks|first2=Robert|last2=Sims|year=2014|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|page=311|isbn=978-0253015396|via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[Will Jackman|Will “Cannonball” Jackman]] (1895–1972), Negro League baseball player
** [[Will Jackman|Will “Cannonball” Jackman]] (1895–1972), Negro League baseball player
** [[Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson]] (died 1976), American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.nepr.net/music/2015/01/15/luther-johnson/|title=Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson|website=Digital.nepr.net}}</ref>
** [[Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson]] (died 1976), American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.nepr.net/music/2015/01/15/luther-johnson/|title=Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson|website=Digital.nepr.net}}</ref>
** [[Abrey Kamoo]] (1815–1904), Tunisian-born American physician and Civil War nurse<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/trs/trspdf/2020-11-Guides-Gazette.pdf |last=Murphy |first=Bob |title=Abrey [Abbredalah] Kamoo |magazine=Guides Gazette |date=November 2020 |page=3 |publisher=[[Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]] |access-date=11 February 2022}}</ref>
** [[Abrey Kamoo]] (1815–1904), Tunisian-born American physician and Civil War nurse<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/trs/trspdf/2020-11-Guides-Gazette.pdf |last=Murphy |first=Bob |title=Abrey [Abbredalah] Kamoo |magazine=Guides Gazette |date=November 2020 |page=3 |publisher=[[Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]] |access-date=11 February 2022}}</ref>
** [[John Edward Kelly]] (1839–1884), Irish Revolutionary,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boston.gov/news/stories-mount-hope-irish-revolutionary/|title=Stories from Mount Hope: The Irish Revolutionary|date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>
** [[John Edward Kelly]] (1839–1884), Irish Revolutionary<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boston.gov/news/stories-mount-hope-irish-revolutionary/|title=Stories from Mount Hope: The Irish Revolutionary|date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>
** [[King Kelly|Michael "King" Kelly]] (1857–1894), [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]] baseball player<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13EwCgAAQBAJ&q=king+kelly+mount+hope&pg=PA471|title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others|first=Bill|last=Lee|year= 2009|publisher=McFarland|page=471|isbn=978-0786442393|via=Google Books}}</ref>
** [[King Kelly|Michael "King" Kelly]] (1857–1894), [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]] baseball player<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13EwCgAAQBAJ&q=king+kelly+mount+hope&pg=PA471|title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others|first=Bill|last=Lee|year= 2009|publisher=McFarland|page=471|isbn=978-0786442393|via=Google Books}}</ref>
**[[Thomas W. Piper]] (1849–1876), Canadian-born serial killer "The Boston Belfry Murderer" <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1876-05-27/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1876&sort=date&date2=1876&words=Piper+Thomas&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=11&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Thomas+Piper&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=6|title=Execution of Piper at Boston and Frost at Worcester|publisher=New York Herald|date=27 May 1876}}</ref>
**[[Thomas W. Piper]] (1849–1876), Canadian-born serial killer "The Boston Belfry Murderer" <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1876-05-27/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1876&sort=date&date2=1876&words=Piper+Thomas&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=11&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Thomas+Piper&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=6|title=Execution of Piper at Boston and Frost at Worcester|publisher=New York Herald|date=27 May 1876}}</ref>

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Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston) is located in Greater Boston area
Mount Hope Cemetery (Boston)
Location355 Walk Hill Street, Mattapan,[2] Massachusetts
Coordinates42°16′58″N 71°06′30″W / 42.28278°N 71.10833°W / 42.28278; -71.10833
Area125 acres (51 ha)
NRHP reference No.09000767[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 25, 2009

Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan.

Description and history

Mount Hope was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It was the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[3] The cemetery's office building was designed by Boston architect James Mulcahy.[4]

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.[1]

In May 2020, the remains of fifty victims of infectious diseases, including smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, syphilis, and other diseases, were removed from the cemetery on Gallops Island in Boston Harbor where they were threatened by storm damage and reinterred in the Graceland section of Mount Hope. Their identities are unknown; they died between 1871 and 1902 and the fifty include people of African, Asian, and European origin.[5]

In October 2021, a new memorial headstone for African American Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor was dedicated in a ceremony sponsored by the Massachusetts Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and attended by Boston mayor Kim Janey.[6] Originally, the grave marker only contained her second husband's name, Russell Taylor (1854-1901); cemetery records indicate that she was buried with him in 1912.[6] The new stone includes Taylor's name as well as an inscription of her likeness.[6]

Notable interments

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Mount Hope | Historic Burying Grounds | City of Boston". Cityofboston.gov.
  3. ^ "NRHP nomination for Mount Hope Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  4. ^ "James Mulcahy". Find a Grave. November 28, 2016. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  5. ^ MacQuarrie, Brian (June 14, 2020). "A century later, another epidemic's victims are remembered and reburied". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d "Susie King receives monument". Coastal Courier. October 16, 2021. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022. Mount Hope Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts where Taylor is buried
  7. ^ "Leonard Chadwick - victoriacross". Vconline.org.uk.
  8. ^ "June 27, 1890: George Dixon Becomes First Black World Boxing Champion". Blackthen.com. June 27, 2018.
  9. ^ Catherine Graupner Stone, quoted in: Philip Hale, "The birth-date of Gottlieb Graupner", Boston Symphony Orchestra Programme for 29th season, 1909–1910 (Boston: The Orchestra, 1910)
  10. ^ a b James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S.; College, Radcliffe (August 21, 1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press. p. 99 – via Internet Archive. sarah grimke mount hope.
  11. ^ "Stories from Mount Hope: Rudof Haffenreffer". March 8, 2022.
  12. ^ Brooks, Christopher A.; Sims, Robert (2014). Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor. Indiana University Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-0253015396 – via Google Books.
  13. ^ "Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson". Digital.nepr.net.
  14. ^ Murphy, Bob (November 2020). "Abrey [Abbredalah] Kamoo" (PDF). Guides Gazette. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. p. 3. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
  15. ^ "Stories from Mount Hope: The Irish Revolutionary". January 21, 2022.
  16. ^ Lee, Bill (2009). The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others. McFarland. p. 471. ISBN 978-0786442393 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ "Execution of Piper at Boston and Frost at Worcester". New York Herald. May 27, 1876.
  18. ^ "WWHP – Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895)". Wwhp.org. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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