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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
True
Joseph
1921
Hiram Village
30
Son of Obadiah True. (72yr 9mo)
True
Frank E.
1865
Mar 2, 1880
Hiram Village
30
Son of Roscoe/Ellen True
True
Lizzie M.
1878
June 26, 1893
Hiram Village
30
Wife of Frank E. True-dau of Alonzo/Alice M. Paine Jewell
True
Phebe P. (Alexander)
1899
Hiram Village
30
Wife of Joseph True (74yr 8mo)
True
Ellen S.
1838
1948
Hiram Village
30
Wife of Roscoe G. True-dau of Wm./Sarah F. Blunt Bean
True
Sarah G.
1923
Hiram Village
35
dau of Joseph/Phebe True-no dates given but buried Jan 2, 1850
Tuttle
Sarah H.
1876
1904
Hiram Village
21
Dau of Samuel/Phebe Tuttle
Tuttle
Samuel
1821
1918
Hiram Village
21
Son of Samuel Tuttle-soldier
Tuttle
Phebe R. (Spencer)
1844
1900
Hiram Village
21
Wife of Sanual H. Tuttle
Twitchell
Col. Joseph F
1838
May 15, 1984
Hiram Village
12
Son of Jonathan/Ann Flanders Twitchell. Col. J/Carrie L Twitchell parents of Walter D.,Gertrude S.,Nettie W.
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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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