Florida cemetery reveals man behind today's Drury High School in North Adams
Editor's note: This is the last in a summer-long series in which Advocate writer Judith Fairweather visits old cemeteries to try to dig up interesting tidbits of local history.
FLORIDA -- As I pondered my last Grave Matters column of the year, I found it only appropriate to bridge my time between my Advocate summer writing season with my return to my Drury High School classroom by finding the grave of Nathan Drury, founder of DHS.
Using the Berkshire Family History Association computerized Berkshire Index search tool in the local history department at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, I searched for both Nathan and his wife, Freelove, who are buried in the small Drury graveyard located on what was once their property in Florida.
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