Garland Cemetery

Garland Cemetery

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Location: 43.91115 -71.03203

From its intersection with Brownfield Road, drive south on Thompson Hill Road 300 yards to a house on the right (west). Walk west about 500 feet along an old road to a gravel pit. The cemetery is just before the gravel pit up on a hill. There are two gravestones on the ground and no enclosure.

Historical Information: This cemetery is on a hill behind the farm owned by Joseph K. Garland in 1861. The cemetery appears to contain the graves of his parents. The gravestone of Mehitable Garland is broken and lying on the ground. There is also a fallen footstone with the initials J. G. next to it, most likely for her husband, Joseph Garland (Sr). No other stones were found.

Joseph and Mehitable (Kimball) Garland were married 3/3/1812 in Belmont, NH. Most of their children were born in Jackson and Gilmanton. They appear on the 1850 census in Bartlett, NH, in the household of their son, Joseph K. The elder Joseph was listed as insane and according to Ancestry.com Family Trees he died 2/27/1858 in Barrington. There is no proof of that death date and place. By the 1860 census, Joseph was not with the family in Eaton, though Mehitable (age 81) was. 

Condition: This cemetery is in the woods without an enclosure. The stones are in poor condition.