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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
Floriella A.
1863
Hiram Village
1
Dau of Thompson/Lydia Cotton
Cotton
Levina W.
Mar 31, 1841
Hiram Village
24
Dau of Wm. Jr/Levina Cotton
Cotton
Raymond
1904
Sept 26, 1927
Hiram Village
4
Son of Chas./Lizzie Cotton
Cotton
Living Leander
1883
Hiram Village
11
Son of John H./Susan Storer Cotton (73yr)
Cotton
Thompson R.
1840
1930
Hiram Village
1
Son of John/Susan Storer Cotton. 1st wife. Lydia C. buried Cotton Burial Ground. Thompson/Elizabth parents of Caleb,Susie, Thurston, Ruthie.
Cotton
Charles
1869
Hiram Village
4
Son of Lemuel/Julia Cotton
Cotton
Lemuel
1840
May 28, 1918
Hiram Village
4
Son of Living/Irene Storer Cotton
Cotton
Thurston D.
1875
July 3, 1922
Hiram Village
35
Son of T.R./L.R. Durgin Cotton
Cotton
Caleb D.
1878
1957
Hiram Village
1
Son of Thompson R./Elizabeth Durgin Cotton
Cotton
Lizzie P. (Lombard)
1872
Hiram Village
4
Wife of Charles Cotton-Dau of James/Nevelia N. Lombard
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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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