Rural Cemetery - Serving all faiths since 1838.
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Rural Cemetery has family lots available in our lovely companion garden with monuments, or in our garden area with open spaces and bronze markers set flush with the grade.

The Landscape

The far-sighted Worcester citizens who, in 1837 "prayed the Legislature" for the right to own a cemetery, were horticulturalists at heart. When the charter was granted, "incorporating a unique association providing for individual proprietorship," they saw to it that it included a provision for the planting and care of trees, shrubbery and "other ornaments."

Tree The trees are a testament to this caring. Some older than the cemetery itself, such as the larch there to welcome Harriet Kinnicutt, the first burial in 1838. Here, too, is an enormous oak whose acorn was planted more than a hundred years ago by the child who lies beneath. Many of the over 650 trees are as diverse in character as those whose watch they keep: swamp cypress flourishing in dry ground, the "telephone pole" tulip, large protective green and copper beeches, mature Scotch pine, a rare ash, a bank of holly.

A Tree Fund, established in 1985 as an on-going trust, assures that Rural Cemetery always will be a true arboretum.

Perpetual Care

Crompton Mausoleum Since 1868, the cemetery has assumed responsibility for the care of all lots when sold. A portion of every sale is added to a fund whose principal is never spent, the income thus being always available for this purpose.

Any memorial plantings or structures added to a lot, however, are not under Perpetual Care, but may be covered by a supplementary contract.


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The Proprietors of Rural Cemetery
180 Grove Street
Worcester, MA 01605

(508) 754-1313

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