Holyhood Cemetery

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Holyhood Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Heath St
Brookline, Massachusetts
MPS: Brookline MRA
Added to NRHP: October 17, 1985
NRHP Reference#: 85003275

Holyhood Cemetery is a cemetery located in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. It is best known for holding the final resting places of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the parents of U.S. President John, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York Robert, and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward. The last child born to President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was also buried here until his father was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in 1963.

Holyhood is also the final resting place of golfer Francis Ouimet and baseball player George Wright.