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HIRAM CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS BY HUBERT W. CLEMONS - STANLEY CEMETERY records 1989-2011. Heading NOTES - copied as recorded in the original notebook in the collection of Hiram Historical Society in Great Ossipee Museum. Heading PAGE # = the page in the original notebook.

Last Name
First Name
Born
Died
Cemetery Name
Page #
Notes
Gilpatrick
Rebecca H. (Thompson)
1867
1905
Stanley
17
wife of Ira Gilpatrick
Gilpatrick
Russell Neal
Aug 23, 1919
Aug 3 1932
Stanley
11
"Our Darling Boy"
Givens
Elsie
Stanley
20
Givens
Harry
Stanley
20
Goodwin
Alton
Oct 23, 1878
Dec 14, 1950
Stanley
5
Goodwin
Bernice L.
Nov 10, 1894
Mar 1, 1959
Stanley
5
wife of Alton Goodwin-dau of Freeman C./Myra A. Lord Stacy
Goodwin
Eliza M. (Bradeen)
June 22, 1859
Jan 2, 1950
Stanley
5
wife of Frank P. Goodwin
Goodwin
Ethel (Gilpatrick)
Nov 28, 1890
Dec 29, 1968
Stanley
6
wife of Frank P. Goodwin Jr-dau of Joseph W./Sarah Cushing Gilpatrick
Goodwin
Frank P.
May 6, 1856
Aug 15, 1905
Stanley
5
son of Hancock/Fedelia Temple Pierce Goodwin-Frank P./Eliza M. Goodwin parents of Alton, Edith M., Frank P. Jr
Goodwin
Frank P., Jr
May 26, 1892
Sept 8, 1965
Stanley
6
Frank P. Jr/Ethel Goodwin parents of Isabelle C., Patricia Goodwin
Goodwin
Isabelle C.
Nov 11, 1928
Dec 10, 1934
Stanley
6
Goodwin
Ora F. (Gilpatrick)
July 27, 1893
April 11, 1929
Stanley
5
wife of Alfred Goodwin-dau of Benjamin/Emma Gould Gilpatrick
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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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