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HIRAM CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS by HUBERT W. CLEMONS, 1989 - 2011 - HIRAM VILLAGE CEMETERY and PLEASANT RIDGE CEMETERY. Recorded fully as typed in Clemons's notebook in the collection of Hiram Historical Society in Great Ossipee Museum. Heading PAGE # = the page in Clemons's notebook. (1) = footnote

Last Name
First Name
Born
Died
Cemetery Name
Page #
Notes
Kimball
Charles
Apr 29, 1926
Hiram Village
43
son of Ephraim J r/Lydia Kimball. (16yr 11mo 10da)
Kimball
Leland L.
1857
Oct 13, 1885 (1888)
Hiram Village
43
son of Ephraim Jr/Lydia Kimball
Kimball
Ephraim
Sep 21, 1866
Hiram Village
43, 44
son of Ephraim Jr/Lydia Kimball (18da)
Kimball
John
Apr 21,1986
Hiram Village
43
son of Ephraim/Hannah Emerson Kimball (61yr 6mo)
Kimball
Dea. Ephraim
May 19, 1920
Hiram Village
42, 43
son of Ephraim/Hannah Kimball (77yr 3mo 24da)
Kimball
Madison
Dec 20, 1865
Hiram Village
43
son of Ephraim/Rachael Kimball (13yr)
Kimball
Peter A.
Dec 8, 1858
Hiram Village
43
son of Ephraim/Rachael Kimball (21yr 8mo 24da)
Kimball
Rachael F. (Ackerman)
Dec 11, 1875
Hiram Village
43
wife of Ephraim Kimball (71yr 9mo 26da)
Kimball
Lydia J.m
June 2, 1823
Hiram Village
43
wife of Ephraim Kimball Jr-dau of Lt. Asa/Sarah Bucknell Burbank (69yr 11mo 3da)
Kimball
Mehitable
Sep 7, 1888
Hiram Village
43
wife of John Kimball-dau of Simeon Sr/Hannah Bucknell. (78yr)
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Footnotes

Footnotes:

ST-7 John C. Gilpatrick and his wife, Abigail Bond lived for many years by the brook-side near the Samuel Ridlon homestead in Hiram. When advanced in life,he removed to Limerick, where he died. John & Abigail were parents of Daniel & Ammi Gilpatrick. Ammi Gilpatrick married Esther Gray; they were parents of 11 children, including Charles F. Gilpatrick to whom the following obituary was written in a Portland newspaper on Feb. 9, 1914. Believed to be the only case of complete ossification on record. South Hiram, Feb. 9- at the home of his sister, Mrs. Alpheus Gilpatrick; Charles F. Gilpatrick, known all over New England and many other states as 'the ossified man', passed out of life Feb. 7, aged 57 years". Mr. Gilpatrick is believed to have been buried on family property to avoid exhumation of his body for medical research.

 

ST-12 William Stanley, son of William, was born in Shapleigh, ME in 1778. He married Susanna Morrison, certificate granted Dec.12,1797, and followed his brother Joseph to Parsonsfield. He soon moved to Hiram, where he built a house and mill and cleared a farm. He died April 27, 1822, age 46yrs; his wife died July16, 1836 age 56yr. They were buried on his land at South Hiram, where their gravestones now stand. William and Susanna were parents of Esther who married Samuel Ridlon; Isaac who married Susan Gould; William who married Nancy Perkins; Jacob who married Betsey Thompson; Joseph who married Olive Peters; Deborah who married Daniel Gould; Olive who married George Gould; and Rev. John who married Salone Stacy. Information from Geideon T. Ridlon's SACO VALLEY SETTLEMENTS AND FAMILIES.

 

ST-22 NOTE: The following are listed in Preston Stanley's (local funeral director for many years) record books as having been buried in the Stanley Cemetery, South Hiram. They may be in unmarked graves.

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