Location: 43.96699, -70.86723
From its intersection with Lords Hill Road, drive east on 160 0.3 miles towards Denmark to #394 on the left (north) side of the road. This was the old Joseph Perkins Farm (later his son John S., then his grandson John W.). There is a gravestone for Joseph’s young son Joseph O. about 700 feet northeast from the house in a pasture, up a hill and near a quarry. The stone is leaning against a rock wall and its base was not located.
Historical Information:
The gravestone is for Joseph O., son of Joseph and Betsey (Proctor) Perkins, died 1/28/1851 aged 3 years and 9 months. Joseph O. appears on the 1850 census in Brownfield as being three years old.
In the working copy of the 1987-88 D.A.R. book of Brownfield cemetery inscriptions there is a handwritten note that according to Eli Bean there are buried on the John S. Perkins farm the following people: 1) Timothy Perkins, father of Joseph Perkins, who was born in Saco, ME around 1780 and died in Biddeford, ME before 1850; 2) Olive (Tarbox) Perkins, wife of Timothy, who was born about 1774 in Saco and died in Brownfield 4-29-1863, age 89 years (she was living with her son Joseph in Brownfield in 1850 and 1860); 3) Joseph O. Perkins, previously mentioned; 4) an infant daughter of David Freeman and Deborah (Chaney) Perkins (this couple had children in 1858 and 1869, so most likely there were children between that did not survive; David and Deborah are buried in Pine Grove). The note also mentions that although they were actually buried in Saco, there were markers for Joseph and Betsy (Proctor) Perkins.
When Joseph deeded his home farm to his son John S. (3-31-1887, Book 83, PAge 167) there was no mention of a graveyard. There was also no mention when the farm passed to John S.’s wife Lizzie, or when it passed to their son, J. Wesley Perkins.
Condition (5/13/18):
This short marble tablet gravestone would have required a slotted base to be set in. The ground near the gravestone was probed but no base was found.
In 2019 this area was clear-cut to create a pasture. The stone walls partially surrounding the cemetery are clearer now. Although some are falling down and the southern wall all but missing, the outline of the small rectangular cemetery is obvious.
