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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
Henrietta (Milliken)
Stanley Cemetery
15
Cole
J. Everett
Aug 6, 1823
Stanley Cemetery
15
Cole
Mehitable (see Ridlon)
June 19, 1918
Stanley Cemetery
7
Collomy
Flora (Townsend) (see Small)
Mar 26, 1935
Hiram Village
23
Collomy
Delwin W., Jr.
Apr 22, 1933
Pleasant Ridge
20
(51yr) son of Delwin W./Flora Townsend collomy-husb of Judith Gilpatrick-formerly married to Beverly Carver-Flora Collomy later married Wilbur Small
Connick
James S.
Mar 3, 1858
Oct 22, 1951
Hiram Village
52
son of Levi/Martha Hodgkins Connick-James S./Mary L. Connick parents of Percy E., Helen M., James H.
Connick
Mary L. (Spaulding)
Dec 16, 1858
Hiram Village
52
wife of James S. Connick
Coons
Evelyn (see McLaughlin)
1977
Pleasant Ridge
1
Corsetti
Marie E. (Smith)
1942
Pleasant Ridge
4
swife of Richard Corsetti-dau of J. Gerhardt/Lillian Mayhew Smith
Cotton
Addie (see Thurlow)
Hiram Village
11
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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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