Cemeteries in Salem, Michigan

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Our database contains records of burials from 3 cemeteries.

Old Burying Point Cemetery: Many notable people are buried in this cemetery, such as Salem Witch Trials Judge John Hawthorne, Mayflower passenger Captain Richard More, architect Samuel McIntire, Governor Simon Bradstreet, Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde and Reverend John Higginson.

The last execution day was September 22. Hanged were Martha Corey (her husband Giles Corey was pressed to death three days earlier), Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell.

Those accused and convicted of witchcraft in Salem were tortured and ridiculed, with most being executed by hanging. The majority of their corpses were dumped around the Old Burying Point Cemetery.

Change., Christ-Doane tells us about her recent discovery of a “treasure trove” of information about the youngest victim of the trials, 4-year-old Dorothy Good.

Located in the heart of the Charter Street National Register Historic District, Charter Street Cemetery is Salem's oldest burial ground. This 1.47 acre public green space contains one of New England's finest collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century gravestone art with the oldest stone dating to 1673.

Perhaps the most devastating story from the Salem witchcraft trials is that of Dorothy Good, the youngest person to be arrested and jailed in 1692. At the age of four years old, Dorothy was accused of practicing witchcraft and confined to prison for nearly eight months.

June 10- Bridget Bishop is executed on Proctor's Ledge at Gallows Hill in Salem. She is the first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials.

In all, 19 were hanged, one pressed to death, and five others died in jail. Trouble in the tiny Puritan village started in February 1692, when eleven-year-old Abigail Williams and nine-year-old Elizabeth Parris, daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris, began acting strangely.

Change., Christ-Doane tells us about her recent discovery of a “treasure trove” of information about the youngest victim of the trials, 4-year-old Dorothy Good.

June 10- Bridget Bishop is executed on Proctor's Ledge at Gallows Hill in Salem. She is the first person to be executed during the Salem witch trials.

Abt noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was pressed to death for standing mute Much pains was used with him two days one after another by ye court & Capt. Gardner of Nantucket who had been his acquaintance: but all in vain.

Perhaps the most devastating story from the Salem witchcraft trials is that of Dorothy Good, the youngest person to be arrested and jailed in 1692. At the age of four years old, Dorothy was accused of practicing witchcraft and confined to prison for nearly eight months.