Old Charlestown Burying Ground, Phipps St., dates from 1638, Charlestown, Mass.

Abdalian, Leon H., 1884-1967 · [ca. 1920–1960]

Here lie John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, Thomas Beecher, ancestor of the famous Beecher family, and many other famous characters of Colonial days. Tombstones in this ground were all that was left standing of Charlestown when it was destroyed by fire by the British in 1775.