Find-A-Grave Listing: Visit to see biographies and photos of individual stones.
MOCA Code OxBrf06
Location: 43.966920, -70.954014
From its intersection with Haleytown Road, drive east on Farnsworth Road 0.8 miles. Follow Farnsworth as it takes a sharp right turn to the south and continue 0.1 miles. The large cemetery is on the left (east) side of the road. (Note: This section of Farnsworth Road is closed in the winter.)
Historical Information:
In 1860 John Marston set this aside in a deed to be a cemetery, sold lots and started an association (Book 40, page 355). (Some burials had already occured before this date.) The deed lists the members and which plots they bought.
Lot 1: Charles Johnson (buried here are Jonathan, Lydia, James, Esther, Walter, Julia, Lillian, Jonathan, Randilla, Anthony, Mariah, Noah and Loraney Johnson)
Lot 2: Jacob Gray (buried here are John, Lucinda, Steven M., Jacob P., Ned and Clair Gray; Susan Soule; W. Smith and Ellen Haley)
Lot 3: Harrison Quint (buried here are Harrison, Hannah, and Dalbert Quint; John C. Gray; Charlotte Taylor)
Lot 4: Oliver Cotton (buried here are Oliver, Margera, and Freeman Cotton; Drusilla and Cora Chapman)
Lot 5: Aaron P. Wentworth (buried here are James B., Anna and Helen Marston; Towle, Lucinda and Emily Peary; Rebecca C. Wentworth; and other graves, potentially Aaron P. and Susan Wentworth)
Lot 6: Joseph Hill (buried here are Joseph, Susan, Ellen, and Christine Hill)
Lot 7: Not originally sold (many unmarked graves, one with a marker for G.A.A.)
Lot 8: George Peary (buried here are George, Catherine and Charles Peary; Benjamin Wade; Amos and Sarah Burnell)
Lot 9: Reserved for John Marston (buried here are George, Rebecca and Nellie Quint; Abigail Stover; and originally (then moved to Pine Grove) Joshua, Rachel and Jonathan Quint)
Lot 10: Reserve for John Marston (buried here are John G., Lydia, Frances E., Alonzo, Algenon, Nelly, Nellie E., Algernon, John, Eunice, John Jr, and Betsey Marston; Hannah B. Rounds)
Lot 11: Cyrus S. Cotton (buried here are Cyrus, Nancy and Rosannah Cotton)
Lot 12: William Cotton (buried here are Elisha, Margaret, John, William, Ruth, William E., Mary E., Willie, and Gertrude Cotton; Albert, Margaret, Sadie, Charlie, Jesse, and Enoch Perkins)
Lot 13: Daniel Cotton (buried here are Daniel, Phebe, Frederick, and Aurieville Cotton)
Lot 14: Andrew B. Osgood (buried here are Susan, Grace, and Rose Ellen Osgood; Alta B. Chadbourne)
Lot 15: James M. Bean (buried here are Capt James O., Elizabeth, Ann Maria, James M., Annette, Albert, and Carroll Bean; Clarence Friday and Marion Haley)
Lot 16: Samuel Bean (buried here are Samuel, Sarah, and Horatio Bean; Hannah L., Orvil, Grace, Benjamin, and Mary Howard; Benjamin and Esther Clifford; William and Eva Linscott)
Lot 17: Henry Bean (buried here are Henry, Martha, Chancy, Osborn, and Betsey Bean; possibly Mary Ann (Bean) Storer)
Lot 18: Eli W. Johnson (buried here are Eli W., Lydia, Ann Augusta, Amelia, Marthy, Charles, and Joseph Johnson; Harriet Gilman; Anna Holbrook)
Lot 19: James M. Harmon (buried here are George W., John, Richard, Priscilla, and Clarissa Harmon)
Lot 20: William H. Gray (buried here are Margaret Sands, George Grant, Eunice Walker, John Folsom)
Lot 21: Appears to be empty
Lot 22: Winslow A. Moor (Eliza and Shepley Moors; Lavina Johnson; Job, Mehitable and Phebe Andrews)
Lot 23: Thomas H. Bean (appears to be empty, though there is possibly one grave depression)
Lot 24: Orin Edgecomb (buried here are Charles and Martha Johnson; Irving and Annie Sanborn)
Lot 25: Seth Hamlin, Jr (buried here are Seth Jr and Lucinda Hamlen; Seth C. Buker)
Lot 26: Ezra Rounds (buried here are Ezra, Eliza and Laura Rounds)
Lot 27: Augustus G. Bean (buried here are Elisha Jr, Sophronia, William, Martha, Edward, Myra, Donald and Horace Cotton)
Lot 28: Sargent S. Tibbetts (buried here are Abraham, Hannah, Herbert and Albert Tibbetts)
In October of 1957 a group of volunteers led by Grace Giles and Harold Cole painted half of the galvanized mesh fence that was erected 20 years prior. The 1947 fire had caused it damage. Burton Brooks cleaned the yard. Grace also established a trust for future maintenance in 1972. The last remaining trustee, Irving S. Fisher, passed the responsibility to his son, Larry. In the summer of 2024 the trust fund was finally put to use and the broken, fallen, and leaning headstones were repaired and reset.
Condition (2024):
This cemetery went through a period of neglect, but in May of 2022 volunteers and the public works department cleaned out the worst of the saplings, many which had reached 4′ high. The town then hired a professional landscaper, who did an amazing job in the fall of 2022 cutting the cemetery back to where it should be. After a couple seasons of professional spring and fall clean-ups, the growth is under control. Over forty stones were reset in 2024 by Jess Davis. Seven new markers were added to replaced ones that had disintegrated.