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Parsons Cemetery offers a variety of services to meet your needs at competitive rates. Additionally, we are constantly adding new services as we are able to do so. Should you have any questions about a service, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Burial and placement services are performed by our experienced staff and local death care partners.
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Permanent memorialization for cremated remains is offered with in-ground burial, above-ground columbarium placement, or above-ground placement along the lakeside memorial walkway.
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Our newly developed pet garden is a serene, secure location for your pet's ashes. We offer a variety of options for memorializing your pet.
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Parsons Cemetery is today both operational and historic. It is an urban green space, an outdoor museum, and in the words of architectural historian, Keith Eggener, urban cemeteries “are where life meets death, nature meets city, and present meets past.”
Parsons Cemetery covers 18 acres and is divided into several sections. Take a tour of our cemetery and learn what Parsons has to offer today.
In addition to being an active cemetery, Parsons Cemetery is also a historic site. Many of Salisbury’s early leaders are interred in Parsons Cemetery. The Parsons Cemetery Committee works hard to provide historic information for our patrons and we offer a variety of self-guided tours.
Parsons Cemetery takes great pride in working with the local community. Each December we host Wreaths Across America where we honor the 1,300+ veterans interred in Parsons. We also work with local organizations like Salisbury University, 4-H, and the Boy Scouts to keep the cemetery clean and the older markers maintained.
Parsons is grateful for the number of hours volunteered by the members of our local community.
Wreaths Across America Cleanup day
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On this day, we remove the nearly 1,400 wreaths placed during the December event and take them for burning. Volunteers are greatly appreciated.
Friends of Parsons Cemetery annual Valentines Day appeal
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Honor your loved ones buried at Parsons Cemetery by contributing to our Friends of Parsons Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund held by the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore
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The Cemetery's leaves and the Wreaths Across America wreaths have been removed. Spring is on its way and it is now time to prepare the cemetery for Easter and the grass cutting season. We are asking friends and neighbors to volunteer. Children, accompanied by an adult, are more than welcome. You need only bring gloves. Guidance and directions will be provided along with trash bags. Your interest in this historic cemetery is greatly and gratefully appreciated.
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Memorial Day at Parsons Cemetery
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Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States armed forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1970. The American Legion Post 64 will be placing flags on the graves of veterans on the 27th and removing them on June 3rd.
Parsons Cemetery's thank you to Salisbury's First Responders
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Please join Parsons Cemetery in honoring our First Responders on the anniversary of the day their brothers and sisters fought to save those caught in the terrorist attack of 9-11-2001.
Here are five ways you can do it!
Watch our video honoring the First Responders buried at Parsons.
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Read each of the 63 names of those resting here.
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Visit the cemetery, stop at one of the graves, say thank you.
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Tell us if you know of a First Responder buried at Parsons that is not on our list.
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Join us at our Wreaths Across America event on December 16th since many First Responders are also Veterans
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In honor of the Feast of Saint Francis, patron saint of animals, we will be holding our annual Blessing of the Animals at the Delmarva Pet Garden located in Parsons Cemetery. We invite you and your pets to join us for this special event. The event is rain or shine and open to all.
Veteran's Day at Parsons Cemetery
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“Protecting our future by remembering our past,” in the words of the Doughboy Foundation (DF), Parsons Cemetery joins others across the country in its annual Bells of Peace Ceremony this Veteran’s Day.
Initiated in 2018 to commemorate the World War I Armistice's 100th anniversary, this ceremony at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month honors all Americans who have served their nation and the cherished peace we enjoy because of their dedication and sacrifice, the DF said.
At 11 a.m. that Saturday, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, which owns Parsons Cemetery, will ring its tower bell 21 times. The church’s 8:30 a.m. prayer service will also honor the sacrifice of veterans. It usually lasts about half an hour.
At Parsons, the on-sit office opens at 10 a.m. with a display of Dr. Brent Zaprowski's new and unpublished Veteran's Self-guided Walking Tour memorializing the WWI veterans. Some 300 veterans of the “War to End All Wars” are interred at the cemetery, said Zaprowski, a member of the Parsons Advisory Committee. The office will remain open until 11:30 a.m. and all are invited. At 10:15 a.m., a guided walking tour starts, focusing on the graves of all veterans, from the War of 1812 onward. Carol Smith, who drafted the original tour, will lead. A moment of silence will be observed as the "Bells of Peace" ring. Some 1,238 men from Wicomico County were mobilized during WWI, Zaprowski added, and worldwide over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died.
Smith, also an advisory committee member and history buff, said the first public celebration of Armistice Day was in 1919. In 1954 it was renamed Veterans Day.
All are invited to the St. Peter’s prayer service and to Parsons for the walking tours. St. Peter’s is located at 115 St. Peter’s St. downtown. Parsons is located at 912 N. Division St. For more information call 410-749-6571.
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Wreaths Across America at Parsons Cemetery
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Parsons Cemetery will participate in this national event to honor the nearly 1400 veterans buried at our cemetery. Gates open at 9:00. Parade starts at 9:30. Ceremony at 10:00 followed by placement of wreaths
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Wreaths Across America - Official Page will be at Parsons Cemetery on Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. to remember and honor veterans.
Remembrance wreaths will be laid on veterans' graves, followed by a reading of all veterans' names.
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Please support Pack 151 and Wreaths Across America! Pack 151 sells wreath sponsorships for our local chapter of WAA which takes place December 14th at Parsons Cemetery in Salisbury. A portion of wreath sales comes back to the pack to help defer costs. Thank you for your support!
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Thanks to a grant from the Choptank Electric Trust, and the help of students from the SU honors College, we were able to install speed bumps and signs at Parsons Cemetery. Sure, no one likes speed bumps but, believe it or not, there are hills at Parsons that create blind spots. Out of concern for our many walkers, bike riders, and people visiting their loved ones, we thought this was needed. We rely on grants and gifts to allow us to take on projects that are beyond our budgeted expenses.
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