Old South Cemetery – Montague – Franklin County – United States

Old South Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Montague Center, Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Old Stage Road and East Taylor Hill Road. The town’s 2026 open-space inventory identifies the cemetery as a 1.54-acre municipal property on East Taylor Hill Road. ([montague-ma.gov](https://montague-ma.gov/files/Montague_OSRP_Draft_for_Town_Review_02-27-26.pdf?utm_source=openai)) Its gravestones include distinctive examples of early New England funerary art, including winged skull motifs, a double-headed marker, and an 18th-century “billboard” stone. ([montaguereporter.org](https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/March-30-2023.pdf?utm_source=openai)) Among the documented burials are Elijah Bardwell, whose 1786 epitaph recounts his fatal horse accident, and Captain Asahel Gunn, buried there in 1796. ([montaguereporter.org](https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/July27_2017.pdf?utm_source=openai)) The cemetery is maintained by Montague’s Cemetery Commission, and the town reported that its last available plots were assigned in 2016. ([montaguereporter.org](https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/January18_2018.pdf?utm_source=openai)) Burial records and a comprehensive transcription of tombstone inscriptions are available through Montague’s Carnegie Library reference materials. ([montaguereporter.org](https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/January18_2018.pdf?utm_source=openai))