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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
Hill
Eugene F.
Feb 2, 1942
Hiram Village
36
son of Scammon/Octavia Hill (5yr 11mo)
Hill
Susan
Sep 7, 1883
Hiram Village
36
wife of Samuel Hill (85yr 8mo)
Hodgdon
James
1855
Hiram Village
37a
(75yr) bro to Nancy Hodgdon Rankin
Hodgdon
Margaret
1838
1916
Hiram Village
37a
Dau of James/Pauline Hodgdon
Hodgdon
Olive
1840
Dec 9, 1850
Hiram Village
37a
Dau of James/Pauline Hodgdon
Hodgdon
Pauline (Rand)
1895
Hiram Village
37a
wife of James Hodgdon (37yr 4mo)-dau of Aaron Rand
Hollis
Elizabeth
1811
1963
Hiram Village
10
Dau of James B./Content Mann Plummer-Friend who made her home with Eli/Ruth Clemons
Howard
Edith E.
1916
Hiram Village
2
1st wife Albert F./Killed @M.C.RR crossing 29yr-Dau of Cyrus/Cora Mains Black-Mother of Freeman Howard
Howard
Beatrice A.
1900
1902
Hiram Village
2
Dau of Albert/Etta Warren Rankin-2nd wife of Albert F.-Mother of George, Phyllis(Wm. York), Esther
Howard
Charles F.
1841
Oct 20,1921
Hiram Village
2
Son of Albert Freeman/Ann Bean Howard. Charles F./Ella S. parents of Albert F., Frederick S. Howard
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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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