Sawyer Cemetery

Sawyer Cemetery

Find-A-Grave Listing (contains information on individual burials, including gravestone photos)

Location: 43.85096 -70.87349

From its intersection with Tripptown Road, drive west 550 feet to a driveway on the right (north) side. Drive 250 feet up the driveway to the house. The small cemetery, which is not enclosed, is in the yard on the west side of the house.

Historical Information: This cemetery is for the Dean Sawyer family who lived next to it. It contains the graves for Dean, his second wife Sally (Harmon), their daughter Clara, and their granddaughter Lizzie. There is also a grave next to Clara’s that has a slotted base but the gravestone has broken out and disappeared. This may be for Daniel P. Sawyer, son of Dean and Sally. Daniel took over the homestead after his father died and Sally lived with him. Daniel and his wife Harriet had eleven children before he died at age 48 in 1886. There is no evidence of him being buried anywhere else.

There is also a stone in this cemetery for the recent owner of the property, Samuel McClintock Hamill III. The stone is carved in a historical style and fits well in the cemetery.

Plot Map for Sawyer Cemetery

Condition (6/6/2020): This cemetery is not enclosed and it is possible that there are more graves. There is evidence of some of the gravestones being reset in the past and it is possible that they have shifted from their original locations.