Vine Lake Cemetery

Gravestone of Samuel Green
The Family of Samuel Green
by Marian Pierre-Louis


Find out more about this remarkable African American family of some means who resided in Medfield during the 1800s.  [read more…]

Gravestone of Gabriel Strang
Another Civil War Soldier: Once Lost But Now Found
by Robert Tucker Gregg


From his death on 6 April 1865 at Poplar Grove Church, Virginia to the Spring of 2011, Gabriel Strang was a Civil War soldier… [read more…]

Early Slave Owners and Slaves, Vine Lake Cemetery and Guinea
by Robert Tucker Gregg

In early Medfield, a society of slaves prevailed to an unknown extent. [read more…]

family visiting Bent gravestone
From our House to Vine Lake Cemetery: Uncanny Connections
by Maria Baler


How a Medfield family came to know their home’s history, the Bent family who lived there, and their burial lot in the cemetery.  [read more…]

Sarah Smith
How a Plucky Girl Overcame Frequent Hardships
by Robert Tucker Gregg


During the first few years of her life, she was of feeble frame and considered by her mother’s friends to be not worth raising. [read more…]

William Pitt Allen
What We Know About Medfield’s First Murder in 1802
by Robert Tucker Gregg

You won’t believe much of what happened with this murder and subsequent grave robbery but it’s truly the way it happened. [read more…]

Gravestone McMahan
Missing Civil War Soldier Found
by George Gray


I became interested in Daniel McMahon, a Medfield soldier who was killed in battle. [read more…]

Marinda Melissa Keniston
The Secret Behind Lot 227 Grave 2
by Robert Tucker Gregg


 
What will you discover when an obscure family is brought to light? [read more…]

Gravestone of Warren, Peter 1814
From Bondage to Freedom: The Saga of Cesar Hunt/Peter Warren
by Robert Tucker Gregg


An African American slave who bought his freedom, served in the Revolutionary War, and lived in Medfield. Who is this intriguing person? [ read more…

The Sampson grave stones
The Sampson Stones
by Robert Tucker Gregg


Perhaps the cemetery’s most intriguing mystery about two perforated stones. What makes these stones so different?  [read more…]

Roadside Cottage, painting by Dennis Miller Bunker, 1889
Who was Lucy Bran?
by Robert Tucker Gregg

At the time of her death in 1837, Lucy was regarded as the last Native American living in Medfield.  [read more…]