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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
Sargent
Annie (Palmer)
1863
Jan 27, 1955
Pleasant Ridge
9
wife of Thomas S. Sargent-dau of James/Joan Smith Palmer
Sargent
Cora B. (Storer)
Jan 2, 1881
Pleasant Ridge
19
wife of Wilburn A. Sargent-dau of Almon/Mary E. McLucas Storer
Sawyer
Eugene L.
1903
Hiram Village
30
Son of Ora/Elizabeth Hilton Sawyer
Sawyer
Wilma L.
1911
1920
Hiram Village
30
Wife of Eugene Sawyer-dauof George/Florence Sanborn
Scribner
Nellie L.
1878
1898
Hiram Village
27
2nd wife of Bourdon Scribner-dau of Geo/Adeline Howard Rankin-sister of Gardner H. & Jennie P. Rankin
Scribner
Bourdon C.
1869
1960
Hiram Village
27
Son of Cyrus/Hannah E. Prince Scribner
Scribner
Annie J.
1879
1941
Hiram Village
27
Wife of Bourdon Scribner-Dau of George E./Julie Welch Stanley
Seavey
Thomas B.
Jan 21, 1972
Hiram Village
51
(66yr 5mo)
Seavey
Infant dau
May 7, 1871
Hiram Village
51
dau of Thomas B./Abigail Seavey (11da)
Seavey
Abigail H.
1812
Dec 23, 1838
Hiram Village
51
wife of Thomas Seavey-dau of Jonathan/Elizabeth Kimball Wentworth
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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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