The Edson Cemetery is a cemetery located in

Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, United States. Alongside Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, it is one of two traditional county seat, seats of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in ...

, at 1375 Gorham Street.

Overview

Edson Cemetery was opened as a public burial ground by the city of Lowell in 1846. It was named in honor of Rev. Theodore Edson, who was minister of the St. Anne's Church on Merrimack Street. It has over 10,000 lot owners, and is the largest of Lowell's cemeteries. The grave of American author

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ...

, at the center of section 94, is a frequent stop for tourists and readers who often leave mementos like candles, pens, cigarettes, and their own poetry.

Notable burials

, novelist *

John C. McFarland John C. McFarland (1840 – October 3, 1881) was a sailor in the United States Navy and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War. Biography McFarland entered the Navy at Boston, M ...

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces, military decoration and is awarded to recognize American United States Army, soldiers, United States Navy, sailors, Un ...

recipient, Civil War *

William Preston Phelps William Preston Phelps (1848–1923), known as "the Painter of the Mount Monadnock, Monadnock", was an American landscape painter. Early years He was born on the family farm near Chesham, New Hampshire, Chesham, then the Pottersville section of ...

, painter * Joseph Taylor,

recipient, Civil War

References

{{reflist 1846 establishments in Massachusetts Buildings and structures completed in 1846 Buildings and structures in Lowell, Massachusetts Cemeteries in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Tourist attractions in Lowell, Massachusetts Cemeteries established in the 1840s