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Here I am walking the  North Orange Cemetery where Lucy Chase Malcom is buried on a beautiful October day in 2007.  She, of course, has no gravestone because before she died she resided at the local poor farm and therefore had no personal assets for a marker.   Below the photo you will see a map showing the relationship of the poor farm and the cemetery.  This cemetery is about 4 1/2 miles north of Orange, Massachusetts on Wheeler Road.  My husband and I did mightily search of many of the likely nearby cemeteries to find the grave of her husband, Michael Malcom. We did not find it. He disappeared from the known recorded history of the Malcoms after 1798. ( We do not know if he died or just left the area.)
If Michael indeed died in the vicinity of Orange, MA, he too, probably has no existing cemetery grave marker in those burial localities around Orange.  The Malcom family at that time had no money for a frivolous expenditure such as a stone marker.   He may just have been buried on the property on which they lived at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a map showing the relationship and the distance between the North Orange Cemetery (small red circle) and the township "poor farm" (large red circle). Looking at the map, it seems that the farm was named TOWN FARM judging by the name of the road which runs by it.  This cemetery has other persons buried there that were not indigent.  Greg and I found the location of the former "poor farm" with the help of a gentleman we found working outside on his property located on the corner of Main street and Athol Road just east of the cemetery.  The poor farm today no longer exists because such institutions long ago became "politically incorrect".

 




It was not an auspicious beginning for the Malcom family but I think Lucy and Michael would have been proud of the way their children, grandchildren and the future Malcom generations conducted their lives except for a glitch or a "bad patch" or two.   Please continue to explore the rest of the Malcom pages on this website to find out for yourselves what happened.