Harmony Grove Cemetery is a cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. It was established in 1840 and is located at 30 Grove Street.
The cemetery includes the Gothic revival Blake Memorial Chapel of 1905.
James Armstrong (1794-1868)- American CommodoreFrank Weston Benson (1862–1951), American Impressionist artistJohn Prentiss Benson (1865–1947), Maritime paintings artistWilliam Bentley (1759–1819), Unitarian minister and diaristCaptain John Bertram (1796–1882) Founder of Salem Hospital [1]. When John Bertram died in March 1882, his widow donated their home, John Bertram Mansion, a High Style Italianate brick and brownstone mansion that was built at 370 Essex Street [2] and this became the Salem Public Library. [3] In addition, [4] John Bertram House is now a home for the elderly.William Cogswell (1838–1895), US Civil War generalJacob Crowninshield (1770–1808), Representative from MassachusettsLuis F. Emilio (1844–1918), Member of Whipple's JewelsCaroline Emmerton (1866–1942), Founder of the Settlement at the House of Seven GablesWilliam Crowninshield Endicott (1826–1900), US Secretary of WarGeneral Gideon Foster (1749-1845), American Revolutionary Maxim Karolik (1898–1964), Art collector and donorJames Miller (1776–1851), War of 1812 general and first governor of Arkansas TerritoryEdward Sylvester Morse (1838–1925), American naturalistGeorge Swinnerton Parker (1866–1952), Founder of Parker BrothersGeorge Peabody (1795–1869), American businessman/philanthropistDudley Leavitt Pickman (1779–1846), American businessman/philanthropistWilliam Frederick Poole (1821–1894), American bibliographerCharles Lenox Remond (1810–1873), American orator and abolitionist (brother of Sarah, see below)Leverett Saltonstall I (1783–1845), 1st Mayor of Salem, MAThomas Treadwell Stone (1801–1895), Transcendentalist, AbolitionistThere are several monuments in Harmony Grove.
Cannons given to the cemetery by the War Department in 1888. These were outmoded soon after the Civil War.Monument for the family of Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894), an American physician and abolitionist who was sister of Charles. Sarah was buried in Rome. Her father was John Remond.Monument for Frederick Townsend Ward (1831–1862), an American mercenary, who was cremated and buried in China.Monument for Stephen C. Phillips (1801–1857), Representative from MassachusettsAn old burial ground, called Gardner Hill, was situated a little west of Harmony Grove. When the area of Boston Street and Grove was developed in the 1840s, one hundred fifty graves were moved from Gardner Hill to the cemetery. One of the graves was that of Thomas Gardner (1592–1674) who came to the area, from Cape Ann, with Roger Conant in 1626. Thomas' daughter, Seeth, and grandson, Abel, were also moved to Harmony Grove.
One of the stones moved from the old burial ground was for Robert Buffum who arrived in 1634, from Yorkshire, England, and was buried in 1669. His is the oldest grave in Harmony Grove.
