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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
Cole
Tobias
Dec 4, 1876
Hiram Village
41
(81yr 5mo 11da)
Cole
Tobias
Oct 29, 1824
Aug 22, 1866
Hiram Village
39, 41
Son of Tobias/Lydia Gray Cole
Cole
William
May 24, 1984
Hiram Village
41
Son of Tobias/Lydia Gray Cole (45yr 3mo)
Cole
Hannah
Hiram Village
41
dau of Tobias/Lydia Cole (39yr 3mo)
Cole
Lydia
Nov 24, 1876
Hiram Village
41
dau of Tobias/Lydia cole (2mo)
Cole
Mary Ann
Hiram Village
41
dau of tobias/Lydia Cole (13yr)
Cole
George W.
May 21, 1849
Hiram Village
41
son of Tobias/Lydia Cole (39yr 3mo)
Cole
Lydia (Gray)
Hiram Village
41
wife of Tobias Cole-dau of Daniel/Lydia Gray (84yr 7mo)
Cole
Ruth (Stuart)
Jan 23, 1837
Hiram Village
39
wife of Tobias Cole-dau of Jedediath/Mary Pinkham Stuart
Cole
Sabrina (see Spring)
Nov 26, 1890
Spring Cemetery
2
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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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