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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
Cotton
Emma (see Cummings)
1964
Hiram Village
4
Cotton
Lydia (McLucas) (see Gilman)
1976
Hiram Village
11
Cotton
Susie (see Stanton)
1920
Hiram Village
1
Cotton
Augusta (see Clemons)
1926
Hiram Village
19
Cotton
Hannah (see Hartford)
Hiram Village
24
Cotton
Effie (see Thurlow) (see Walker)
1908
Hiram Village
23
1st wife of Fred Thurlow-2nd wife of Fred Walker-Dau of Living Leander/Lydia Cotton-grave unmarked (29yr 3mo 12da)
Cotton
Marcia (Norton)
1906
Feb 3, 1910
Hiram Village
4
1st wife of Raymond Cotton-Dau of Jesse/Lillian White Norton-Drowned
Cotton
Mabel (Stuart)
1908
Aug 21,1939
Hiram Village
4
2nd wife of Raymond Cotton-Dau of Chas./Abbie York Stuart
Cotton
Lizzie
1864
1919
Hiram Village
4
Dau of Lemuel/Julia Cotton
Cotton
Rachael
1930
1998
Hiram Village
4
Dau of Raymond/Marcia Cotton-Drowned
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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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