Pine Grove Cemetery is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

Brunswick, Maine Brunswick is a New England town, town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Brunswick is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part o ...

, United States. The land used to establish the cemetery was deeded by nearby

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...

in 1820.

Burials

Jesse Appleton Jesse Appleton (November 17, 1772November 12, 1819) was the second president of Bowdoin College and the father of First Lady Jane Pierce. Early life Appleton was born on November 17, 1772, in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He was the son of Franci ...

Joshua Chamberlain Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828February 24, 1914) was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a high ...

Joseph McKeen Joseph McKeen (October 15, 1757 – July 15, 1807) was the first president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Life and career McKeen was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, a town that his father and grandfather, John and James, who had ...

* Alpheus Spring Packard Sr. *

William Smyth William Smyth (or Smith) ( – 2 January 1514) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and ...

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