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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
Evans
Oliver
Jan 10, 1796
Hiram Village
26
Son of Benj H./Mary Evans
Evans
Roy Clifton
Oct 11, 1898
Hiram Village
27
Son of Clifton/Grace Clark Evans
Evans
James Maxwell
1900
Jan 20, 1879
Hiram Village
13
Son of Clifton/Grace Clark Evans
Evans
Clifton
1867
1969
Hiram Village
27
Son of James Jr/Abbie B. Evans
Evans
Grace (Clark)
1875
1952
Hiram Village
27
Wife of Clifton Evans-dau of John/Alfreda Day Clark
Evans
Abbie (Burbank)
Apr 24, 1842
1932
Hiram Village
27
Wife of James Evans Jr-dau of Wm. G./Eliza Wentworth Burbank
Evans
Clara E. (Winters)
1902
1941
Hiram Village
13
Wife of Maxwell Evans-Dau of C.O./S.F. Winters
Evans
Mary E. (Locke)
July 6, 1806
Hiram Village
26
Wife of Oliver Evans-dau of Edward/Elizabeth Meader Locke
Evans
Verna (see Fowler)
1956
Pleasant Ridge
6
Evans
Phebe
April 15, 1963
Spring Cemetery
4
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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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