Holyhood Cemetery

Description

Laid out in 1857, the cemetery was designed to reflect the rural cemetery movement begun at Cambridge's Mount Auburn Cemetery. It was the first such cemetery in Brookline. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Notable burials

Kennedy family

Holyhood Cemetery is best known for being the final resting place of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (parents of U.S. President John, U.S. Attorney General Robert, and U.S. Senator Edward). Their daughter Rosemary Kennedy is also buried here, along with several other family members. Joan Bennett Kennedy is buried here too.

The last child born to President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was also buried at Holyhood Cemetery, until being removed to Arlington National Cemetery, along with a stillborn daughter originally buried in Newport, Rhode Island, following their father's assassination and burial there in 1963.

Others

Holyhood is also the final resting place of former Boston mayor and U.S. representative Patrick Collins (mayor), with a memorial sculpted by Cyrus Edwin Dallin; Cardinal John Wright; golfer Francis Ouimet; baseball player George Wright; Irish poet and journalist John Boyle O'Reilly; author, poet, journalist and diplomat James Jeffrey Roche; and lightbulb pioneer and engineer Martha J. B. Thomas. John Geoghan, an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist is also interred there.

File:John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery Brookline Massachusetts USA.jpg|John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery Brookline, Massachusetts File:John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Plaque Close-up Holyhood Cemetery Brookline Massachusetts USA.jpg|John Boyle O'Reilly Tombstone Plaque Close-up Holyhood Cemetery Brookline, Massachusetts File:Patrick A Collins Memorial.jpg|Patrick A Collins Memorial – designed and executed by Cyrus Dallin File:James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone Holyhood Cemetery.jpg|James Jeffrey Roche Tombstone

Commonwealth War Grave

The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war burial, of an American-born Royal Air Force Cadet of World War I William Becker Hagan.

References

References

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2. "History | Holyhood Cemetery Association".
3. "NRHP nomination for Holyhood Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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6. Keneally, Thomas. "The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New".
7. [http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/082903_funeral.htm Former priest slain in prison is buried in Brookline cemetery]. {{Webarchive. link. (September 27, 2018)
8. [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4010287/HAGAN,%20WILLIAM%20BECKER William Becker Hagan] CWGC Casualty record.