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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
Carll
Olive (see Goodwin)
Spring Cemetery
13
Cellea (Cilley)
Sarah
Stanley Cemetery
13
Cellea (Cilley)
Joseph
Stanley Cemetery
13
Cellea (Cilley)
William
Jan 15,1903
Stanley Cemetery
13
Chadbourn
F. Ella (see Wilson)
1872
Hiram Village
5
Chadbourn
Ellen M.
Hiram Village
18
"Sister" (of George W. Davis). (44yr 7mo 4da)
Chadbourn
Simeon
1780
Hiram Village
46
Son of Humphrey/Mary Libby Chadbourn
Chadbourn
Cyrene (Kerney)
Dec 5, 1894
Hiram Village
5
Wife of Francis S. Chadbourn (he died 1893)-Mother of Ella Wilson-Dau of Stetson/Susan Brackett Kerney (73yr 9da)
Chapman
George
Aug 5,1838
Hiram Village
1
(81yr 2mo)
Chapman
Eunice (see Lombard)
1799
June 27,1851
Hiram Village
1
Dau of George/Olive Gerry Chapman
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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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