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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
Wadsworth
Ida
1857
Aug 7, 1922
Hiram Village
6
Wife of Freedom Wadsworth-Dau of Wm.H./Eliza Smith Clemons-Hiram death record says died 1/19/1951
Wadsworth
Annette C.
July 19, 1840
Dec 7, 1919
Hiram Village
15
Wife of Hon Llewellyn A. Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Augusta E. (Leighton)
June 8, 1851
Sep 29, 1848
Hiram Village
22
Wife of James Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Mary Jane (Rowe)
1813
1977
Hiram Village
10
Wife of Samuel Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Jane I.
1817
1908
Hiram Village
10
Wife of Samuel Wadsworth-Dau of Eli/Ruth Clemons
Wadsworth
Pearl M.
1899
Jan1, 1839
Pleasant Ridge
11
widow of Harry B. Wadsworth-1st husb was Harry B. Meserve-dau of Richard/Hattie McLucas Lombard
Wakefield
William H.
1848
1969
Hiram Village
22
Wakefield
Anna S.
1889
1938
Hiram Village
22
Dau of W.H./F.S. Wakefield
Wakefield
Flora E.
1861
1937
Hiram Village
22
Wife of Willima H. Wakefield-Dau of Isaac/Anna E. Howard Small
Wakefield
Arthur
1887
1918
Hiram Village
22
soldier
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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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