Location: 43.84626 -70.96777
This cemetery is located on the east side of Colcord Pond Road just south of its intersection with Dana Weeks Road. An overgrown path leads up the hill to the cemetery and begins just north of the mailbox for #1024. The cemetery is surrounded by split granite walls and is in poor condition. There are many burials marked with fieldstones and at least two burials outside the walls.
Historical Information: From Burch’s “Cemeteries of the Town of Porter”: “According to Thomas Moulton’s ‘History of Porter,’ Joseph Stanley (1772-1843) came to Porter about 1806 from the town of Shapleigh. Joseph had 2 younger brothers, William (1776-1822) and Elisha (1787-1862), who moved to the area from Shapleigh about the same time. William settled in Hiram and built his farm and a mill overlooking Stanley Pond.
Joseph was married 4 times and had 9 children. He was first married to Betsy Parsons and had 3 children (Charles, Samuel and Olive). From the ages of the children, it appears that Joseph was married to his second wife, Eunice Stone, when he moved to Porter. Eunice died in 1810. Joseph’s children with Eunice were 1) Betsey (b.12/28/1802), 2) James (b.3/2/1804), 3) Joseph Jr (b.12/21/1806), 4) John (b.5/13/1808 and sometimes called ‘Black John’), and 5) Eunice (b.4/4/1810). Joseph married his third wife, Sally Palmer, in 1810. There is no record of any children with Sally Palmer. His fourth wife was Mary Nason and her children were Mary (b.7/24/1824) and Benjamin (b.9/11/1827).”
Joseph Stanley has a headstone in this cemetery and some of the fieldstone markers could be for his last three wives.
Joseph’s first son, Charles, married Anna (Pearl) on 10/20/1816. Their daughter was Catherine (Stanley) who married Edmund Day. They are both buried in the cemetery. Edmund and Catherine’s son, Charles Day, is also buried here.
Condition (9/1/19): This cemetery is overgrown and needs to be cleared of saplings and fallen trees. Two of the carved gravestones are propped up and two are lying on the ground.