The West Groton Cemetery is located on Scott Highway (U.S. Highway 302), about 4 miles west of town, just beyond the Scott memorial. No one knows who the first person to be buried there was. Volume V of the Town records shows a map of this burying ground dated September 19, 1835.
Information was taken from “Mr. Glover’s Groton” and a cemetery transcription by Bob Murphy on August 1, 2001.
Below is a list of those buried in this cemetery from the Town’s cemetery listing:
Butler, Elisha – 1900 unmarked grave/has a stone in old Village Cem
Carpenter, Richard M. 1842 – 8 Jun 1844 son of Eliphalet & Hannah Carpenter (dates on headstone not readable)
Carter, Josetta (Myers) 1801 – 1888
Carter, Kate 1837 – 1866
Carter, Luther 1800 – 1868
Cunningham, Iza (Welch) 1787 – 1861 wife of Nathaniel Cunningham
Cunningham, Hannah 1816 – 1854 dau of Nathaniel & Iza
Cunningham, Nathaniel 1792 – 1858
Darling, Aaron 1805 – 1839
Darling, Edwin 1834 – 1861
Darling, Ira 1801 – 1886
Darling, Ethelinda (Page) 1814 – 1880, wife of Ira Darling
Emery, Ann 11 Aug 1823 – 19 Sep 1843
Emery, Asa S. 1842 – 6 Oct 1879 Col in GAR
Emery, Jean (Vance) 1746 – 5 Dec 1832 wife of Charles Emery
Emery, Lillie C. 1884 – 16 Jun 1944 dau of Jeremiah & Drucilla Emery
Emery, Mary J. (Welch) 1842 – 7 Jul 1937 wife of Asa Emery
Fellows, Hannah (Randall) 1833 – 1910 wife of Joseph Fellows
Fellows, Joseph 1803 – 1890
Frost, Avis Jane 1835 – 1853 dau of Isaiah & Betsey Frost
Frost, George 1823 – 1829 son of Isaiah & Betsey Frost
Frost, Betsey (Morrison) 1798 – 1857 wife of Isaiah Frost Sr
Frost, Isaiah Sr 1790 – 1853
Frost, Isaiah Jr 1826 – 1854 son of Isaiah & Betsey Frost
Frost, Mary 1819 – 1840 dau of Moses & Anna Frost
Goodwin, Charles 1869 – 1869 son of Abner Goodwin & Lizzie Clark
Goodwin, Ethelinda (Welch) 1838 – 1866 wife of Abner Goodwin
Goodwin, Eunice (Darling) 1810 – 1871 wife of Rufus Goodwin
Goodwin, Jeanne 1874 – 1876
Goodwin, Rufus 1802 – 1870
Goodwin, Rufus – 18??
Kittredge, Jephaniah 1823 – 1873
Minard, Marsha – 1856 wife of Henry Minard
Morrison, Charles Jr 1826 – 10 Jun 1849
Page, Dolly (Bennett) 1774 – 24 Oct 1839 wife of Moses Page
Page, Elizabeth J. 1868 – 3 Nov 1869 dau of Moses Page Jr & Lydia
Page, Hannah – 1876
Page, Hannah (Seavey) 1811 – 12 Jul 1876 wife of Moses Page Sr
Page, Hannah 17 Sep 1851 – 10 Aug 1854 dau of Jonathan & Polly Page
Page, John S. 1790 – 22 Jan 1867
Page, Lydia N. (Gardener), 1843 – 1917, wife of Moses Page Jr
Page, Melissa 6 Aug 1853 – 3 Dec 1855 dau of Jonathan & Polly Page
Page, Mercy (Merrill) 1816 – 14 Mar 1875 2nd wife of William Page
Page, Meribah (Wormwood) 1784 – 6 Feb 1876 wife of John S. Page
Page, Moses 20 Jul 1776 – 1 Dec 1839
Page, Moses Sr 1807 – 8 Jan 1879
Page, Moses Jr 1842 – 1916
Page, Olivian 1835 – 4 Oct 1861 1st wife of William Page
Page, Polly (Cunningham) 5 Nov 1817 – 30 Jul 1862 wife of Jonathan Page
Page, Robert F. 1873 – 8 Aug 1876 son of George G. & Jane Page
Page, Sally B. – 1828 dau of Benjamin & Martha Page
Page, ? – 1879 probably Harlan R.
Page, William 11 Dec 1820 – 22 Feb 1888
Rhodes, Martha (Pratt) 1770 – 1862 wife of Oliver Rhodes
Rhodes, Oliver 1765 – 1852
Randall, Mary J. (Chase) 1806 – 1888 wife of Samuel Randall
Randall, Samuel 1810 – 1870
Scott, J.W. – 1865
Thurston, Moses E. 1853 – 1860 son of Peter & Ira Thurston
Welch, Aaron 1854 – 2 Feb 1877
Welch, Caroline (Bennett) 1820 – 3 Feb 1892, 2nd wife of Stephen Welch
Welch, Celinda (Page) 1814 – 10 Nov 1876 wife of Lebbeus Welch
Welch, Charlie H. 1862 – 2 Dec 1869 son of Peter & Elisabeth Welch
Welch, Edmund Jr 1753 – 1829 is reported to be buried here. Grave marker not found though.
Welch, Frank 1879 – 2 May 1880 son of Peter & Elizabeth Welch
Welch, Isabel (Page) 1812 – 4 Feb 1841, 1st wife of Stephen Welch
Welch, Jennie T. 1864 – 4 Dec 1869 dau Peter & Elizabeth Welch
Welch, Stephen Jr 1810 – 26 Jul 1890 son of Stephen & Sarah Welch
Wormwood, Joseph 1767 – 24 Mar 1857
Wormwood, Sara (Page) 1776 – 14 Jan 1865 actually buried in Old Village Cemetery
unknown, Richard ? son of (unreadable) buried with Randalls
unreadable 1850 – 1852 buried next to Randalls
inscription worn away ?
C.M. (next to Charles Morrison Jr. No dates, probably his sister Catherine Morrison)
H.C.C. (in Cunningham plot) no dates, probably Hazen C. Cunningham (1822-1855)
M.P. (in Page plot) no dates, probably Moses Page Jr (1850 – ?)
S.B.P. (in Page plot next to Moses) no dates, probably Silas B. Page (1859 – ?)