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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
Spencer
Roscoe
1859
1907
Hiram Village
17
Spencer
Abbie
1863
1913
Hiram Village
17
Spencer
Frederick L.
1874
1918
Hiram Village
17
Spencer
Frederick W.
1857
1911
Hiram Village
17
Son of William H./Pamelia Spencer
Spencer
Preston
1868
1877
Hiram Village
17
Son of William H./Pamelia Spencer
Spencer
William H.
1835
1886
Hiram Village
17
Son of Wm.H./Jane Robinson Spencer
Spencer
Edna
1880
1937
Hiram Village
17
Wife of Frederick L. Spencer
Spencer
Pamelia
1839
1936
Hiram Village
17
Wife of William H. Spencer-Dau of Royal/Adeline Wood Stanton
Spring
Thomas O.
1818
Feb 14, 1982
Hiram Village
21 (2)
Son of John/Joanna Hancock Spring
Spring
Eliza B. (Gower)
1823
1933
Hiram Village
21
Wife of Thomas O. Spring-Dau of Joshua/Sarah McIntire Gower
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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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