The “Ould Burrying Feeled”

The “Ould Burrying Feeled”. Marlborough, Massachusetts. , Spring Hill Cemetery was first known as “Marlborough's Ould Burrying Feeled.” Lying on a raised plateau, it is invisible from all the surrounding streets but located just a short walk up the hill from this spot on Brown Street. , The oldest gravesite in Marlborough is that of Captain Edward Hutchinson. While on a peacekeeping mission to Brookfield, according to his gravestone he was shot by “treacherous Indians on August 2, 1675 [and] Dyed August 19, 1675” while seeking refuge in Marlborough. , Generations of leading Marlborough families are buried at Spring Hill Cemetery, including the first two ministers of First Church, Reverend William Brimsmead and Rev. Robert Breck, whose gravestones are still among the remarkable features of the cemetery. , A number of memorials to the prominent Goodale family stand out including one for Lucy Thurston, daughter of Reverend Asa and Lucy (Goodale) Thurston, first Christian missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, present-day Hawaii. Their story was chronicled in James Michener's historical novel, Hawaii. , Marlborough Revolutionary War soldiers buried here include Captain Uriah Eager, Deacon Abner Goodale, and Colonel James Wesson, who was severely wounded by a cannonball at the Battle of Monmouth, but survived until 1809. , In 1924, New York City philanthropist Artemas Ward erected the fence surrounding the cemetery. His first American ancestor, William Ward, was one of the founding fathers of Marlborough. William Ward died in 1687 and is believed buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. , [Captions] , . Bottom left: Grave marker for Marlborough's first pastor. , . Bottom right: Ward family monument.