Spring Brook Cemetery

Prices will increase as of October 1, 2025.

It was illegal to bury human remains inside the city of Rome so wealthier people would be buried along the Appian Way (photo is Necropolis of Portus) the main road in and out of the city. Pictured are the family mausoleums of many affluent Roman families. The other burial method was cremation and the ashes could be stored, disposed of, poured into the Tiber or placed into large buildings were niches in the walls had an urn of ashes with a name plate. Often these interment places for urns were called "burial clubs" (Columbaria) and were a cheaper way for families to pay small amounts for the upkeep of the building and the 'cinerary urns' could keep being placed in the walls.

Image: Public Domain.

2023 Memorial Day Chapel Opening - The Chapel will be open from 10am - 2pm on Memorial for all who would like to visit. If you aren't available but would like to arrange a time please contact David Grant at 508-726-6275 or [email protected] to arrange a time.

Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries For a time, eating and relaxing among the dead was a national pastime.

We have a website at www.springbrookcemetery.com which we invite you to visit to find out more about the Cemetery and its history. If anyone is interested in information about family members buried here, we have two databases (not on line) that we will access for you and provide you with the information we have.

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Contact information for Spring Brook Cemetery is as follows:
Mansfield Spring Brook Cemetery Corp. located at 165 Spring Street, Mansfield, MA 02048 with a mailing address of P. O. Box 143, Mansfield, MA 02048

Website: www.springbrookcemetery.com

For Lot Purchase and Burial Services contact:
Larry Tetreault at 508-339-6830

For General and Genealogical information contact:
David Grant at 508-726-6275 or by email at
[email protected]

Amazing, Facebook can't put pictures in the order in which you enter them. The top picture is the first invasion and the bottom left is the second invasion.

We have had two bee invasions at the Chapel one in 2014 and one this year. In 2014 we had 140,000 bees removed to B. B. Nelson Apiaries in RI by owner Jon Nelson. This year, a week before the wedding at the Chapel, Jon removed another 40,000 bees. (Maybe we should go into the honey business). A big thanks goes out to David Depillo of Finishing Touch Enterprise for repairing the hole in the ceiling in time for the wedding. You would never know we had to open it up.
We had two hives in the first invasion which looked like the hive on the left and the latest invasion is the hive on the right. Jon Nelson did a great job of clearing the bees before he wedding and saving all of the bees to one of his hives in Rhode Island.