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Old Settlers LbNA #24870 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 24, 2006
Location: Removed due to vandalism
City:Mendon
County:Worcester
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:Gramma Jelly
Found by: FelixPezGirl
Last found:Sep 10, 2014
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFaFFFFrFF
Last edited:Aug 24, 2006
Hand carved Stamp
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["WHERE IS GEORGE BURIED?
From Pickering Pitchforks and updated in 1999.
Written by Alice Pickering Palladini

There is a huge boulder, in the Old Cemetery in Mendon, Ma. and many throughout the years have written George-1 is buried under this boulder.. The reasoning being that George's land abutted the Old Cemetery and it was the probable location to inter his remains.

In the George Aldrich Genealogy Vol. 1 , Mr. A.J. Aldrich writes "there is a plaque on this boulder". There never was a plaque there before 1998. Mr. A.J. Aldrich probably confused the Quaker Cemetery Plaque on George St. with the boulder at Old Cemetery, in Mendon. The Quaker Cemetery does have a plaque in memory of the Quaker preacher Moses Aldrich.

In 1998 the National Aldrich Association voted to put a plaque on this boulder in the Old Cemetery in Mendon, Ma. Shortly after, a bronze plaque was placed on the Boulder.

It Reads " In Memory of": NOT that George Aldrich is buried here.

"In Memory of "
George Aldrich -1683
One of Mendon’s Founding Fathers
Donated by the National Aldrich Association:"
"1998"

However, in Uxbridge, Ma., (once part of Mendon, ) on the corner of Glendale Rd. & Aldrich St. is an old Historic Cemetery, known as the Aldrich/Cook Cemetery. . At the entrance of this cemetery stands a Memorial stone & large plaque that was erected- by the descendants of the first George and Jacob-2, and this plaque reads George and his son Jacob are buried here.

The question is: did the family of George drive 10 miles in 1682/1683 to bury George in the month of March, in Uxbridge, (Uxbridge at that time was still part of Mendon) or did they go less than a half mile and inter his remains in the Old Cemetery, that abutted his land????

I believe the Uxbridge Memorial plaque to be just that; a Memorial Plaque erected- by some of his descendants and his remains are probably near the now marked boulder in the Old Cemetery in Mendon..

"Where is George buried?"

I believe this question will never be answered."]
From Pickering Pitchforks and updated in 1999.
Written by Alice Pickering Palladini


Mendon's "Old Cemetery" on Providence Road is the resting place of its earliest settlers. Please be respectful and courteous in this ancient burial ground.
From Rt 16, pass Mendon's Fire Station. About 2 tenths of a mile beyond the fire station is the old cemetery. There is plenty of off-road grass on which to park. Walk into the opening of the stonewall that is to the right of the crypt. Walk straight ahead over a small knoll to the back of the cemetery and look for a rock with a bronze placque that reads "In Memory of George Aldrich". Look slightly to the left to find 2 trees that grow out of the same stump. To the left of these 2 trees there appears to be a path. It isn't, however, as you'll come immediately to a stonewall. Stop and listen to the babbling brook. Such splendid solitude. In front of you, nestled in the wall, is the box you are looking for.