The old Royalston cemetery

Massachusetts · USA · Cemetery

A very small, very old burial ground behind a low stone wall, with one way in and the same way out. A table stone lies a little way inside.

The old cemetery at Royalston, Massachusetts is small and old, surrounded by a low stone wall, with a single entrance that is also the only exit.

What visitors report begins as soon as they are through it: cold spots, light touches, and the sense of not being alone.

A short distance in there is a table stone, the flat slab type raised on legs that eighteenth century New England used for people of some standing. Beside it lies one of his wives.

That detail, one of his wives, is the whole of the place in a phrase. Remarriage after a spouse died was routine when childbirth and disease killed as often as they did, and a man of means could easily bury two or three.

The burial ground is public and it is very quiet.

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Hvor ligger The old Royalston cemetery?

The old Royalston cemetery ligger i Massachusetts, USA.