Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street, Boston MA

Established in 1660, the cemetery has around 5000 bodies and 2300 markers. It was named for the grain storage building that once stood next door, and it holds three signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

John Hancock has the largest monument of the three.

Sam Adams is near the entrance.

Robert Treat Paine is on a wall.

James Otis, political activist and legislator.

Ben Franklin's parents are buried here.

The remains of the victims of the Boston Massacre are next to Sam Adams.

This very elaborate tombstone may say Jackson but I couldn't find match on FindAGrave.

Ward and Mary Marston, both of whom died in 1882.

Ben James has a skeleton on his plaque and died in 1790.

Thomas Kilbey, 1690-1732.

William Hall was a leather dresser by trade.

Here are some general photos of the cemetery. Tour groups clog up the famous sites so you have to be patient and wait for them to move on.

At the back of the cemetery you can find Paul Revere's grave, the old slate stone and a newer gravestone.

The cemetery gets over a million visitors a year and you can see why.

Paul Revere ~ January 1, 1735 - May 10, 1818

His gravestone gives his birth and death dates as follows:

Born January 1734

Died May 1818

The Old Style Calendar gives his birth as December 21, 1734 and the modern calendar dates him as being born January 1, 1735, dying on May 10, 1818.

The home he lived in from 1770-1800 is now a museum, 19 N. Square, Boston.

He, or Longfellow, made the Old North Church famous. Revere is also more famous than the other riders due to his poem but that's another story.

On the eve of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was asked to ride to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were coming, by sea. Paul asked the sexton of the Old North Church to hang the two lanterns, which was a pre-arranged signal to the Sons of Liberty across the Charles River in case Revere could not get through.

Revere was successfully rowed across the river and took off on a borrowed horse. At least two other riders also set out that night, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott (and maybe Israel Bissell and Sybil Ludington). Revere made it to Lexington and warned John Hancock and Samuel Adams who were staying at the Hancock-Clarke house.

After Lexington, the three riders headed towards Concord but were captured by the British. Dawes and Prescott escaped. Revere was held and questioned and then let go, but without his horse. He walked back to Lexington and caught the end of the battle on Lexington Green.

Paul Revere died at his home on Charter Street in Boston at age 83 and is buried in Granary Burying Ground in Boston. John Hancock and Samuel Adams also reside in this cemetery.

Silversmith and Revolutionary War hero, RIP to Paul Revere.