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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
Pike
Mary J.
Oct 12, 1931
Hiram Village
33
wife of Dea. Samuel Pike (64yr)
Pillings
George
1961
Pleasant Ridge
18
son of George Pillings-husb of Cynthia Day Pillings-father of R. Cyrena Pillings Gilpatrick-unmarked grave
Pillings
Cynthia L.
1884
Feb 4, 1956
Pleasant Ridge
2
wife of George Pillings-dau of Milton G./(Zeruah)Amelia Charlton Day -George/Clynthia Day Pillings paretns of Cyrena
Plummer
Richard A.
1881
Nov 12, 1983
Pleasant Ridge
3
son of James & Mary Porter Plummer
Pollard
Lewis W.
Nov 24, 1915
Aug 27, 1961
Pleasant Ridge
13
Major, W.S.Army, WWII, Korea-husb of Adeline Fyfe
Poor
Walter W.
Mar 8, 1901
1980
Pleasant Ridge
16
Poor
Charles W.
Feb 20, 1865
Apr 12, 1966
Pleasant Ridge
16
son of William C./Mary E. Kimball Poor-Charles W./Angie F. McKusick Poor were parents of Cecil and Walter W. Poor
Poor
Angie F. (McKusick)
Aug 9, 1874
Apr 7, 1930
Pleasant Ridge
16
wife of Charles W. Poor
Poor
Alice M.
May 17, 1901
Feb 24, 1951
Pleasant Ridge
16
wife of Walter Poor-former wife of Rev Chester Duncan-dau of Alden/Nellie Wnchenbach
Potter
Howard Mattie
1917
Jan 14, 1960
Pleasant Ridge
20
Cpl., US Marine Corps, WWII-husb of Esther Twitchell
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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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