Location: Exact location not found.
According to Teg’s History of Brownfield: “The Storer family cemetery used to be located next to their home, but sometime after 1900 John Eli Storer came from Mass, bought a lot at Pine Grove Cemetery and had all the bodies moved there.” The original Jeremiah W. Storer house is #94 on the south side of Sam Brown Hill Road about 0.4 miles west of its intersection with Old County Road.
Historical Information:
When George S. Blake sold the 80 acres on the south side of Sam Brown Hill Road on April 28, 1903, it was “excepting and reserving…the land that is now enclosed and used for a graveyard.” This land had been previously conveyed to Horace Stanley from Jeremiah W. Storer.
Around the original Storer house (#94) are stone walls, remnants of the farm and a wooded area behind. None of these stands out as being a potential graveyard site. The house at #84 (the old Dr. Pearson house) sits on original Storer land and was probably constructed around 1928 when Henry Pearson bought the land. It is unknown whether the cemetery was moved before the construction or after.
In 2018 two halves of the original Thomas Brooks stone were found at #84, one in the garden to the east of the house and one against the stone wall along the road. This stone may have been discarded when it broke or when the graves were moved and was later replaced with a new stone in Pine Grove. It is possible that the cemetery was located near where these stones were found, to the east of #84 and near the stone wall along the road. This would still qualify as being “next to” the original Storer home and would also be uphill, which is common for cemeteries.
From Eli Bean’s 1894 list it appears that the following people were buried here: Charles Eades and his infant daughter; three children of Eben E. and Caroline (Storer) Rice (Eben A., Frances, infant); Capt. James Cram, his wife Dorothy and their daughter Maria; Julia A. (Quint) Storer (wife of Jeremiah Jr); Jeremiah W. Storer and his wives Orpha and Huldah; Abigail Storer (wife of Oliver); and possibly Thomas and Louisa Brooks (either here or George S. Blake Cemetery). All of these have stones in Pine Grove except Julia Storer (buried in Blake Cemetery), Infant daughter Eades (unknown, possibly Pine Grove) and the Rice children (two out of the three appear on their parent’s stone in Salem, NH).
The original stone for Dorothy Cram, a beautiful thick marble tablet, was found during septic work at the Old Blake Farm (intersection of Old County Road and Dugway Road). The headstone is kept in their ell and the middle piece is cemented into their back foundation wall. It is saddening that this beautiful stone was scrapped. Also, the stone for James Cram was probably similar and it is unknown where it is now located.
