Greenlaw Cemetery (AKA Corn Hill)

Greenlaw Cemetery

Find-A-Grave Listing (Click here to see individual gravestone photos and genealogical information)

MOCA Code: OxBrf10

Location: 43.92647, -70.96759

From Hampshire (Eaton) Road, drive 0.15 miles northwest on Corn Hill Road. The cemetery is next to the road on the left side. It is surrounded by stone walls on three sides and a pipe rail fence in front.

Historical Information: This cemetery contains the graves of early Corn Hill settlers John Greenlaw, Holley Dutch, Joseph K. Paine, Ichabod Johnson, Nathaniel Bean (1st male child born in Brownfield) and more. The graves are grouped in plots and spread out around the cemetery. 

Six members of the Perkins family and two members of the Brackett family who appear on old transcriptions of the cemetery now have granite monuments in Pine Grove Cemetery. Due to the format of the transcriptions they most likely had old carved headstones in Greenlaw that were discarded when the new monuments were put up. There is empty space in the middle of the cemetery where the graves could have been, though there are no depressions indicating exhumation.

Condition (11/9/2022):

This cemetery had been neglected for many years but has recently been cared for by a professional landscaper. The large pine tree in the middle of the cemetery regularly drops dead branches, some of which have broken stones. While most of the headstones are upright, there are multiple stones that have fallen and crumbled, including veterans that are now only marked with flags. There are approximately fifty headstones, ten fieldstone marked graves, and most likely more unmarked.