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Forgotten Graveyard Discovered In Boston

Written by DeadGirl
Monday, 10 July 2006
Hundreds of People Buried in Roxbury Cemetery July 7, 2006 WCVB-TV Ch. 5 BOSTON, MA -- The remains of hundreds of people buried more than a century ago have been dug up by archaeologists on a piece of property sold by the Archdiocese of Boston to a charter school in the city's Roxbury section. The 68,000-square-foot plot was used as a cemetery from 1850 to 1868, church officials said. State records show that in the late 1800s, the church hired a funeral home to exhume the bodies and move them to Toll Gate Cemetery in the neighboring Roslindale neighborhood. "While people may have thought, yes, the remains were transferred from this cemetery to that cemetery, it was not completely done," Brian McNiff, spokesman for Secretary of State William F. Galvin, told the Boston Herald. The team of scientists hired by the archdiocese said Thursday they had already unearthed 100 unmarked graves -- some containing the remains of as many as eight people whose coffins apparently had been stacked on top of one another -- and expected to find as many as 200 more behind the Roxbury Charter High School on Hulbert Street. The archdiocese demolished St. Joseph's Church in 2004 because the building was deteriorating. It put the property up for sale and hired the Public Archaeology Lab of Pawtucket, R.I., in December, after the archdiocese discovered records indicating there had been a burial there, said Terrence C. Donilon, an archdiocesan spokesman. The school, which bought the property for $3 million, plans to use the land for a building addition. Donilon said today's Catholics have nothing to fear about leaving their earthly remains to the care of the church. "In cemeteries we own and operate this isn't an issue," Donilon said. "This was an abandoned cemetery that no one knew existed until we did our own due diligence." The remains found on the property will be re-interred at New Calvary Cemetery in Waltham, with a stone to commemorate the dead. Donilon said he didn't know if the archdiocese will attempt to identify the remains.

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

Michigan is home to one Presidential gravesite, Gerald Ford.

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Have you decided on eternal repose?

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“Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.”

Alexander Maclauren

Grave Epigrams

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. "