Location: Exact location not found.
Town death records report that from November 23-26, 1889 the bodies of Andrew Wentworth and sons William Wentworth and J.B. Wentworth were removed from the [blank] cemetery on Goodwin hill to public cemetery at the center (Pine Grove). Goodwin Hill is on Old County Road between Sam Brown Hill Road and Dugway Road. The Andrew Wentworth house was on the east side of Old County Road 0.3 miles north of its intersection with Dugway Road, though the cemetery was on the the west side of the road nearer to the home of his son Jacob B. Wentworth.
It is unclear where on the farm the cemetery was located or whether anyone remains buried there. Stones for many of the Andrew Wentworth family are now in Pine Grove. Long time residents suspect that the cemetery was to the north of the Jacob B. Wentworth (later Chandler) house on a flat area of higher ground. A gap in the stone wall there was later filled in. This area was also used in the last fifty years as a plowed garden.
Historical Information:
Andrew Wentworth first came to Brownfield in 1799 and bought this homestead farm in 1806 from Daniel Goodwin. On 5-9-1878 the Andrew Wentworth farm was sold to Edward J. Bishop. The land sale was “reserving the Wentworth burying ground enclosed therein” from the portion on the west side of the road. When Bishop sold the property to Georgia Bishop in 1919 the cemetery was still reserved from the deed (Book 116, Page 441). It was also reserved in 1931 when it was sold to Edna M. Chandler. Upon her death the land passed to her children Harold L. and Beulah, but when they died and the land was sold, the burying ground was no longer on the deed description.
Besides Andrew (d. 1854) and his sons Jacob B. (d. 1869) and William (d. 1878), also buried here are/were most likely: Martha (Goodwin) Wentworth (wife of Andrew, d. 1860), Elizabeth (Cram) Wentworth (wife of Jacob, d. 1879), Meribah Wentworth (daughter of Andrew & Martha, d. 1836), Martha Wentworth (daughter of Andrew & Martha, d. 1855), Sabra Wentworth (daughter of Andrew & Martha, d. 1866) and Olive G. Wentworth (daughter of William & Hannah, d. 1847). These all have stones in Pine Grove Cemetery, many which are original and were probably originally at the farm. There is a large monument with the names of Andrew, Martha, William, Olive and Hannah on it. Since Hannah did not die until 1904, this suggests that she (or her children) arranged for the moving of the graves and the erection of the memorial.