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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
Flint
Infant son
1904
1913
Hiram Village
5
Infant son of John C./Eva M. Flint
Flint
Charles H.
1883
1919
Hiram Village
3
Known as "Bert"-Son of Edgar L/Clara A. Flint
Flint
Edgar L
1843
1941
Hiram Village
3
Soldier-Son of Eleazer/Eliza Cram Flint. Edgar/Clara parents of Edgar L.Sr,ArahA.,Eleazer, Fannie C.,John C., Chas. H., Walter, Josie
Flint
Nathan Ripley
1841
Hiram Village
16
Son of Abisha/Mary Marr Flint-Nathan/Eleanor Flint parents of Emma, Helen L. Flint
Flint
Edgar L., Jr.
1863
1920
Hiram Village
5
Son of Edgar L./Clara A. Sanborn Flint
Flint
John C.
1874
1917
Hiram Village
5
Son of Edgar L./Clara A. Sanborn Flint
Flint
Eleazer
1868
1952
Hiram Village
13
Son of edgar L./Clara A. Sanborn Flint-known as "Squid". Eleazer/Lizzie B. Flint parents of Edna Flint.
Flint
Florence M.
1888
1947
Hiram Village
3
Wife of Chas. H. Flint-Dau of Wm/Jennie Clement Butteriield
Flint
Clara A.
1843
1910
Hiram Village
3
Wife of Edgar L.-Dau of Eli/Frances Weeman Sanborn
Flint
Lizzie B. (Osgood)
1879
1915
Hiram Village
13
Wife of Eleazer Flint-Dau of Frank/ClaraLowell Osgood
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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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