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Draper Burial Ground

Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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    Coordinates: 42.37047, -71.34172
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This cemetery is referred to as GR4 Draper private lot, Tower Hill in the "Vital Records of Wayland Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849".

There were only 2 people listed in the above Vital Records on this private lot and they both died of smallpox in 1777.

This double gravestone stood on the Allen property which had been used for a smallpox inoculation house, a pest house, at the time of the American Revolution. It was on the northern border of the Allen land which was on the corner of the Draper and Plain Roads.

According to the Wayland Historical Society. In the spring of 1957 the lovely old gravestone had disappeared. The neighbor said that it had been in the way of the horses so he had got somebody to help him remove it. It was embedded in a cement foundation and when a rope and tackle were used to pull it down, one part broke, so he took it to the Wayland dump.

The dump was searched and the cement foundation was found but the dump custodian said someone had immediately picked up the old slate and had perhaps taken it home for a patio stone.







This cemetery is referred to as GR4 Draper private lot, Tower Hill in the "Vital Records of Wayland Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849".

There were only 2 people listed in the above Vital Records on this private lot and they both died of smallpox in 1777.

This double gravestone stood on the Allen property which had been used for a smallpox inoculation house, a pest house, at the time of the American Revolution. It was on the northern border of the Allen land which was on the corner of the Draper and Plain Roads.

According to the Wayland Historical Society. In the spring of 1957 the lovely old gravestone had disappeared. The neighbor said that it had been in the way of the horses so he had got somebody to help him remove it. It was embedded in a cement foundation and when a rope and tackle were used to pull it down, one part broke, so he took it to the Wayland dump.

The dump was searched and the cement foundation was found but the dump custodian said someone had immediately picked up the old slate and had perhaps taken it home for a patio stone.







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  • Added: 15 May 2014
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2540863