East Side Cemetery? It's on West Cornwall Road

SHARON — At last month’s town meeting, Sharon property owners voted to transfer ownership of the East Side Cemetery from the town to a nonprofit organization called Sharon East Side Cemetery, Inc.

Following the meeting, some town residents expressed confusion over the exact location of the cemetery. It is on West Cornwall Road (see the map, above).

Sharon East Side Cemetery, Inc. was founded by a group of Sharon residents who have family members in the cemetery in question, and felt that the town was not properly maintaining the cemetery.

The cemetery, which had originally been privately owned by two women, was turned over to the town in 1984, along with any money the women had set aside for repairs and maintenance.

Over the years, there had been concerns that those funds were being used to care for other cemeteries in town and that the East Side Cemetery was not being cared for properly.

Glenn Dennis, a representative from the group, said at the town meeting that, “We would like to take the cemetery back and make it private again.�

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