MOCA Code: OxBrf19
Location: 43.93729, -70.94541, R11-014
From its intersection with Haleytown Road, drive east on Hampshire (River) Road less than 0.2 miles. Park at a small dirt drive on the left (north) side across from #236. Walk northeast into the woods about 50 yards. Two gravestones are standing next to a stone wall. There is no enclosure around the graves, though evidence of a barbed wire fence was found about 25 feet south of them.
Historical Information:
Eli Bean’s records indicate the following are also buried here:
- William Hill, Son of Edward and Elsie (Libby) Hill. Died August 31, 1886, aged 72 years. Husband of Jane (Johnson) Hill. They moved to Brownfield in the mid-1850s.
- Edwin Hill, Son of William and Jane (Johnson) Hill. Married Addie Emily Johnson (most likely his first cousin) 2-6-1883 in Conway, NH. She was the daughter of Aaron and Mary Jane (Bragdon) Johnson. They had one son together, Maurice Walter Hill (b. 1890). After Edwin’s death, Addie married Levi Woodbury Towle then James Jaques Gardner. Edwin was a jeweler and died of influenza nine days after his mother, on January 15, 1892. His death record lists his age as 34 years, 8 months and 25 days while his headstone says 35 years, 8 months and 25 days.
- Ada Johnson Eli Bean’s records indicated that an Ada Hill, daughter of Rose E. Hill, died October 26, 1891, aged 14 years, was buried here. In the 1880 census she is listed as Ada Johnson and is a granddaughter of William Hill. It appears that William’s daughter Rose had Ada out of wedlock. Rose eventually married Horace Blake in 1893. It was listed as her first marriage. It is unclear who the “Johnson” (Ada’s father) was, though there were many intermingled in the family.
- Jane (Johnson) Hill, wife of William Hill. Her death record lists her parents as Isaac and Hannah (Bragdon) Johnson. Jane’s death record also states her age as 81 years, 5 months and 14 days. Jane died of influenza 9 days before her son Edwin also died of it, on January 6, 1892.
- An infant child of Edwin Hill
- There is also mention of family of the “new” (early 1900s) owner of the property (Ora Johnson) being buried here too, though Ora himself is buried in Pine Grove.
Condition (8/3/2022):
The headstone of William Hill had broken and was embedded face up in the ground. Jess Davis cleaned and reset the stone. Edwin Hill’s stone is firmly propped by rocks close to level, so was left alone, except for cleaning. The area around the gravestones was trimmed of saplings and branches were cleared.