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AUGUSTUS A. PARKER, son of Mrs. Sybil Parker, was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, June 1, 1862, aged nineteen. He was an original member of Company K, First Infantry.
JOHN CALVIN PATTERSON, son of Hiram and Betsey Patter- son, born Feb. 26, 1840, and a private in Colonel Fletcher Web- ster's Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg.
ALEXIS G. PATTERSON, son of George and Hannah Patterson, a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry, volunteered June 15, 1861. He died in Washington, Nov. 18, 1861, from accidental wounds, aged twenty-six years.
HENRY A. PATTERSON, a private in Company L, First Heavy Artillery, was mustered into service Dec. 28, 1863. He died of wounds received before Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864, aged nineteen years.
MILLER PAYNE, son of the late Dr. Lycurgus V. Payne, en- listed Feb. 5, 1862, as a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry. When that regiment was mustered out of service, July 19, 1864, he was transferred to the Nineteenth Infantry. Soon after, he was reported missing, and is supposed to have been killed, as he was never heard from. His age was twenty years.
JOHN M. PILLSBURY, a private in Company B, First Cavalry, enlisted Oct. 19, 1861, and died of disease, in the military hospital at Augusta, Feb. 23, 1862, aged twenty-three years. He was a son of Daniel Pillsbury.
WILLIAM F. POTTLE, son of William and Elizabeth Pottle, enlisted as a private in Company B, First Cavalry, Dec. 28, 1863. The following April, he was transferred to the navy, and, while serving on board the steamer "Mendota," was killed in action with a rebel battery, on the James River, June 16, 1864. A shell entered the steamer, and, exploding near the gun at which he was stationed, wounded six of the gun's crew. He was buried on the bank of the river. His commander paid a high tribute to his character. His age was twenty-one years.
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ALBERT QUIMBY, a private in Company G, Nineteenth Infantry, joined the service Nov. 5, 1862. He was taken prisoner, Aug. 30, 1864, and died in the hands of the enemy, aged twenty-six.
MICHAEL RARIDEN was mustered into service June 15, 1861, as a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry. He was killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He was thirty-seven years old, and left a family. His body was interred in the national ceme- tery at Gettysburg, the grave being numbered 8 in section F.
MICHAEL RARIDEN, Jr., son of the foregoing, enlisted as an apprentice on the sloop of war "Ino," in November, 1863. He died of disease, at Fortress Monroe, June 6, 1864, aged seventeen. He was buried in the cemetery at old Point Comfort.
EMERY RICHARDS enlisted at the age of twenty years, Feb. 29, 1864, as a private in Company H, Eighth Infantry. He died on the 13th of June following, of wounds received at the battle of Fredericksburg. His remains are buried in the national cemetery at Arlington, Va.
WILLIAM F. RIDEOUT, a private in Company L, First Heavy Artillery, was mustered into service Dec. 28, 1863. He died of wounds received in the battle of Petersburg, June 18, 1864, aged twenty-one years.
CHARLES RIPLEY, a private in Company I, Nineteenth Infantry, volunteered Feb. 20, 1864, and was killed in action, May 6, 1865, at the age of twenty-one.
JAMES ROBBINS was among those who fell in the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He enlisted Aug. 25, 1862, as a private in Company D, Nineteenth Infantry. His age was thirty-four years, and he was married. He was buried in the national ceme- tery, in grave numbered 11, section F.
ALONZO ROBINSON, a private in Company A, Fourth Infantry, enlisted June 15, 1861, at the age of eighteen. He was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol, Aug. 23, 1861.
GEORGE W. ROBINSON, son of John and Lucy Robinson, was mustered into service June 15, 1861, as a member of Company F, Fourth Infantry. He was killed at the battle of Chantilla, Aug. 29, 1862, and left upon the field. His age was twenty-four.
HARRISON ROWE, son of Robert and Susan Rowe, a private in Company I, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry, was taken prisoner in 1865, and is supposed to have died in a rebel prison. The record of the Massachusetts volunteers gives the following ac- count of his service : " Harrison Rowe, of the quota of Wilbraham.
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Enlisted Sept. 20, 1861. Age, 22. Discharged Dec. 23, 1863, to re-enlist. Re-enlisted Dec. 23, 1863. Missing in action March 8, 1865."
JOHN K. SAWYER was killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. He was an original member of Company K, Fourth Infantry. His age was thirty-four. He left a wife and four children.
LEROY S. ScorT, son of the Rev. Theodore Scott, entered the service Aug. 25, 1862. He was Sergeant, and afterwards First Lieutenant, of Company D, Nineteenth Infantry. While in the lat- ter position, at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, he was se- verely wounded in the leg, and having sustained amputation died in the hospital ten days afterwards. His body was embalmed by the Masonic order, and buried in Grove Cemetery with the honors of that fraternity, July 27, 1863. Lieutenant Scott was a school- teacher by profession, and a young man much esteemed.
WILLIAM H. SHAILES, son of the late John and Elizabeth Shailes, was mustered into service Feb. 5, 1862, as a member of Company K, Fourth Infantry. He was subsequently promoted to be Corporal, and was taken prisoner at Manassas and parolled. Subsequently he was Sergeant of Company E, Nineteenth Infantry. He died of pneumonia, in Libby prison, Richmond, Feb. 2, 1865, aged twenty-two years.
JOHN F. SHUMAN, son of John M. and Sarah F. Shuman, a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry, joined the service June 15, 1861. He was wounded at Gettysburg, and died July 13, 1863, at the age of nineteen years. His body rests in the Soldiers' National Ceme- tery, the number of his grave being 6 in section C.
CHARLES SPINKS was mustered into Company I, Twenty-sixth Infantry, Oct. 11, 1862. Having served his time, he re-enlisted Dec. 18, 1863, as a veteran volunteer in Company H, Fourth Cavalry. He died at Barrancas, Fla., Jan. 21, 1865, at the age of twenty years. His grave, in the cemetery at that place, is numbered 171.
EUGENE SYLVESTER, son of Dr. Daniel Sylvester, and a private in Company H, Second Massachusetts Artillery, died a prisoner at Andersonville, Sept. 7, 1864, aged twenty-four years. He enlisted Dec. 7, 1863, on the quota of Swanzy, Mass. The record of volun- teers from that State gives his age as twenty-eight. He was born Dec. 11, 1840.
GEORGE W. SYLVESTER, son of George and Mary Sylvester, a private in Company A, Fourth Infantry, was mustered into service
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June 15, 1861. He died at Belle Isle or Richmond, Va., a prisoner Dec. 15, 1863, aged twenty-five years.
ALONZO H. STICKNEY enlisted Feb. 17, 1862, as a private in Company A, Fourth Infantry. He was killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, aged nineteen years.
JOHN A. TOOTHAKER was among the first volunteers from Bel- fast, having been mustered into the Fourth Infantry June 15, 1861 .. He was Corporal and Sergeant of Company K, and received the Kearney medal of honor. Severely wounded at Gettysburg, he died July 20, 1863, at the age of twenty years. He was a son of the late Captain Thomas Toothaker.
GEORGE FREEMAN TUFTS, Corporal of Company D, Nineteenth Infantry, volunteered Aug. 25, 1862. He was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, aged twenty-two years.
ALFRED P. WATERMAN, son of Joseph M. and Rachel Water- man, Corporal of Company D, Nineteenth Infantry, joined the ser- vice Aug. 25, 1862. He died from wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg, July 4, 1863. His age was nineteen. He was buried in the Soldiers' National Cemetery, the number of his grave be- ing 7 in section A.
DANIEL J. WEST, a private in Company H, Second Cavalry, died Sept. 18, 1864, at Barrancas, Fla. He enlisted as a volunteer Dec. 18, 1863, at the age of twenty-one years. In the cemetery at Bar- rancas, his grave is numbered 188.
DANIEL R. WEST, son of William W. West, and a private in Company I, Twenty-sixth Infantry, enlisted Oct. 11, 1862. He died of disease, May 20, 1863, at the General Hospital, Brashear City, La., aged twenty-two years.
JOHN ALVIN WHITE, Sergeant of Company D, Nineteenth Infan- try, volunteered Aug. 25, 1862. He died in the rebel prison at Andersonville, Ga., October, 1864, at the age of twenty-two. He was a son of William and Mary White.
NATHAN S. WINSLOW was mustered into Company K, Fourth Infantry, May 5, 1863. He was transferred to Company C, Nine- teenth Maine, was taken prisoner, and died in a rebel prison, Aug. 13, 1864.
. JESSE ALDEN WILSON, son of John and Eliza A. Wilson, and grandson of the late Hon. John Wilson, was wounded at Gettys- burg, July 2, 1863, and died on the following day, aged twenty years. He was a Corporal of Company D, Nineteenth Infantry, and joined the service Aug. 25, 1862, at his country's call laying down
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the axe with which he was hewing himself a home in the forests of Aroostook, and shouldering the musket.
JONES E. WILSON, a brother of the last-named soldier, was in- stantly killed in an attack upon Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, aged eighteen years. He was a member of Captain Fred. Barker's Company E, Nineteenth Infantry, having volunteered Oct. 11, 1862. Three sons of parents who gave five to their country lost their lives. Augustus J., who enlisted among the earliest volun- teers from Belfast in Company K, Fourth Infantry, was discharged for disease incurred in the battle of Bull Run, and died July 21, 1864, at Liberty, Me., aged twenty-two years.
AMOS B. WOOSTER was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. He enlisted June 15, 1861, as a Sergeant in Com- pany K, Fourth Infantry, of which he became Lieutenant, and at the time of his death was Captain. His age was twenty-eight years. After having braved the storms of many battles for nearly three years, he fell within a few weeks from the expiration of his term of service. The Hydrant Engine Company No. 2, of which he was formerly a member, passed resolutions in honor of his memory.
FREDERICK H. WYMAN, Corporal Company D, Nineteenth In- fantry, joined the service Aug. 25, 1862. He was wounded at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, and died at the age of twenty-four years. He was a son of Bancroft Wyman.
EZRA YOUNG was mustered into service June 15, 1861, as a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry. He was discharged for disability the following August, and re-enlisted Ang. 1, 1865, in the First Battalion Infantry. He died at Chesterfield, S. C., Ang. 23, 1865, aged forty-seven years, and married.
GEORGE S. YOUNG, son of Captain James and Sarah J. Young, a private in Company K, Fourth Infantry, was mustered into service June 15, 1861. He died of disease, at Potomac Creek Hospital, May 7, 1863, aged twenty-three years. He was a promising young man, greatly esteemed, and in the various battles in which he was engaged displayed coolness and bravery. His remains were brought home, and are buried in Grove Cemetery.
The following young men, who lost their lives in the service of their country, were natives of Belfast, although not credited to our quota : -
GEORGE E. DAY, son of the late Stephen B. Day, a private in Company F, Sixth Maine Regiment, died of disease, at Hagers-
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town, Md., June 3, 1863, aged nineteen years. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, and in the seven days' battles of the Pen- insula, where he narrowly escaped death. He enlisted from Pembroke.
WILLIAM SOLYMAN HEATH, son of the late Solyman Heath, and Lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Maine Infantry, fell at the battle of Gaines's Mills, June 27, 1862. He was in command of the regiment, and, in the act of giving an order from his horse, was shot through the head, and instantly killed. Immediately after followed the disastrous retreat to Harrison's Landing, and his remains were never recovered. He entered the service as a captain, at the commencement of the war, and rapidly developed military qualities of a high order. He was born here, March 13, 1834. His family removed to Waterville, their subsequent home. He graduated at Waterville College in 1855, with a high reputa- tion, studied law, and was in practice at Rockland when the Rebellion broke out. He was a diligent student, a proficient scholar, and a fine writer.
ROBIE FRYE HOLLIS, son of Solomon Hollis, and a private in Company H, Fifty-sixth New York Regiment, died of fever in Nelson Hospital, Yorktown, Va., Jan. 16, 1853, aged twenty years.
JOSEPH BRYANT SMITH, son of Rear-Admiral Joseph Smith, was born here, Dec. 29, 1826, his father then being a resident of Belfast. He was in command of the frigate "Congress," when she was attacked by the " Merrimac " at Newport News, Va., March 8, 1862, and was killed by the first broadside. The frigate soon after surrendered. When his father heard that the "Con- gress " had struck her flag, he simply remarked, "Then Joe's dead." He needed no particulars. He knew the heroic spirit of his son so well that he was certain he had not survived surrender.
Colonel WILLIAM OLIVER STEVENS, of the Third Excelsior Regiment of New York, was a son of Hon. William Stevens, of Lawrence, Mass., and was born here, Feb. 3, 1828. He died from injuries received in the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 5, 1863, aged thirty-six years. He graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1848, and was held in high esteem as a soldier, a lawyer, a citizen, and a man.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
CEMETERIES AND FUNERAL CUSTOMS.
Old Graveyard on East Side of the River. - Location almost unknown. - First Inter- ments. - License granted by Rev. Mr. Price. - Second Graveyard. - Location. - Fenced. - Attempt at its Discontinuance. - Burial-place on Western Side. - De- scription. - Town indicted for Neglect. - Removal of Remains. - Land for new Graveyard on Upper Bridge Road selected and sold. - Grove Cemetery Lots laid out. - Area enlarged. - Superintendent. - Other Graveyards. - Funeral Customs. - Tolling the Bell. - Hearse. - Dead-house.
W HILE living, the early settlers made ample provision for the sepulchre. In 1769, when the land was divided, ten acres on the south end of lot No. 26 were set apart " to be a com- mon to build a meeting-house on, and a graveyard and a training- field." Two years after, the proprietors voted " that each right furnish a day's work to clear land for a graveyard and meeting- house." 1 The earliest spot set apart for interments was on the point, a few rods beyond the present east graveyard. Morrison and Steele, who were drowned in December, 1770, were the first persons buried there.2 Robert Steele, a descendant of the latter, says that over forty years ago he counted what seemed like seventy-six graves on the spot. The few stones that told where the occupants were laid at rest, when they came, and when they went away, have long since refused to bear record. All are destroyed or illegible. In 1802, when the title of Mr. Price to the whole of lot No. 26, or the " Minister's lot," was con- firmed,8 he gave the following license, which is recorded in the town books : -
I, Ebenezer Price, of Belfast, in the County of Hancock, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Clerk, do, by these presents, grant to the Town of Belfast, or any person or persons particularly interested therein, full liberty to build a wood fence round that
1 Proprietors' records.
2. Mrs. Tolford Durham, who said that the next interment was that of a man named Bates : he was drowned in Goose River, when returning from a raising.
8 Records of deed of Proprietors to Mr. Price, in Hancock Registry, vol. xii. p. 292.
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spot of ground formerly occupied for a burying-ground on the south end of lot No. 26, in such compass as will include all graves now occupied, and no more, and to have full liberty to continue the same during the pleasure of the town, or those interested therein. It is, however, to be understood that I, the said Eben! Price, do grant this liberty on this condition only, that no more graves be opened in that place, or in any part of said lot, out of the Town Burying Ground, from this date.
Given under my hand, this 27th Sept. A. D. 1802.
EBEN' PRICE. 1
Attest : JOHN COCHRAN. JAMES NESMITH.
No fence, however, was erected ; and nothing exists to show the bounds of the first burial-place.
The present enclosure is so near the location of the east meet- ing-house as to merit the old designation of a church-yard. A title is derived from Mr. Price, to whom, as has been before men- tioned, the whole lot was conveyed, regardless of previous reserva- tions. His deed to the town, dated Sept. 27, 1802, gives the fol- lowing description : -
" A parcel of land laid out for a burying-ground on lot No. 26, beginning at a stake and stones standing near the shore of the ' Minister's Cove,' so called ; thence south, 87 degrees east, ten rods, to a stake and stones ; thence north, 62 degrees east, ten rods, to a stake and stones; thence north, 56 degrees east, nine rods, to a stake and stones ; thence south, 21 degrees east, six rods and four links, to a stake and stones ; thence south, 58 degrees west, thirty rods, to a stake and stones ; thence northerly, fourteen rods, to the bounds first mentioned, containing one and a half. acres ; also the privilege of a pass through my land from the highway to the burying-ground, of a sufficient width to accommo- date the people in burial of the dead." 2
In 1803, the town voted " to vendue fencing the graveyard on the east side of the river; to build said fence of sawed rails of pine, spruce, or hemlock, five and one half inches wide, and one and a half inches thick, and bid off to Caleb Smith at $1.58 per rod ; the whole to be built of sound timber." In 1821, the report of James McCrillis and Nathan Swan, recommending a new fence, was accepted by the town. Another fence was built in 1849.
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1 Town records.
2 Hancock Registry of Deeds, vol. xi. p. 416.
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The city was indicted in 1872 for allowing the fence to be out of repair. A new fence was at once substituted for the old one.
In 1870, T. R. Shute and others petitioned the municipal authorities for a discontinuance of this graveyard, and a removal of the bodies to Grove Cemetery. A remonstrance from Rev. Albert B. Houston and forty-five others, to many of whom the place was consecrated by the burial of relatives, prevailed, and the petitioners had leave to withdraw. Although long neglected and unattractive, the graves being located without any system and overgrown with bushes, this spot should be preserved as the oldest cemetery, so far as known, within our borders. A long train of the early inhabitants have come to their repose here, and respect for their memory should for ever prevent any disturbance of their remains.
A vote of the proprietors, Aug. 31, 1785, appropriated one and a half acre of lot No. 37, in the first division, for a burial- place. A third of this lot was subsequently assigned to James Miller, " for his second division." The boundaries of the land set apart for the graveyard were as follows : " beginning at a spruce tree about a rod and a half below the road; thence, running north 12° west, to a hemlock-tree; thence north, 78° east, twenty rods, to a stake; thence south, 12º east, twelve rods, to a stake; thence south, 78° west, twenty rods, to the bounds first mentioned." It was accepted by the town, Sept. 8, 1791, being the first burial- place on the western side of the river. An alteration in the form of the land was accepted, by the consent of Robert Miller, Oct. 28, 1803, extending the lot to High Street, and making its entrance six rods wide on that street, where the house of Gorham Lancas- ter now stands.
The first interment was that of Mrs. Betsey Weeks, wife of Lemuel Weeks, Dec. 29, 1790, the grave being made in the midst of trees and stumps.
In 1803, the town voted "to fence the westerly graveyard with posts, joists, and boards, in the form of an open picketed fence." Probably this was not done, as Aug. 23, 1808, a vote appears "that there be a picketed fence in front, planed and painted ; the residue a good and sufficient stone-wall, and to raise $200 to defray the expense."
In 1813, a question as to the rights of the town in the premises having arisen, the following article was inserted in the warrant for the annual meeting :-
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"To see what measures they will adopt relative to land used as a burying-ground on the west side of the river ; the same being the property of Robert Miller."
The subject was referred to John Cochran, Tolford Durham, and John Wilson, who reported " that, after consulting records and counsel, they are of opinion that the town has a good title to said burying-ground as a permanent place of deposit of the dead."
Another appropriation of $200 for fencing was made in 1817, and one of $100 in 1829.
After Grove Cemetery was laid out, the ashes of most of those who had been buried in the former place were removed by their surviving kindred to the latter ground, and the old graveyard fell into a state of decay and dilapidation. Many of the stones were destroyed, the tombs became exposed to the action of the weather, cattle wandered at large among the graves, and several small buildings were erected within the original limits. In 1847, the town was very justly indicted for this neglect, but for several years the condition of the spot reflected disgrace upon a civilized community. After frequent discussions in public meetings, a vote was passed, March 18, 1850, " that W. G. Crosby, Town Agent, be a committee to have full power to do all things in relation to the old burying-ground that he shall deem for the interest of the town ; either to convey the town's right, or cause the bodies to be removed, or the ground to be fenced, or such part of it as he may think best." Acting under this plenary authority, Mr. Crosby im- mediately took measures for exhuming all the remains, which was accomplished the following year; a portion of the expense being defrayed by the town. Many graves, however, were not dis- covered ; and excavations between High and Union Streets fre- quently bring them to light.1 In a few years, the spot which for over a half century was the principal resting-place of the de- parted, where
-" the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron and maid, And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man "
were one by one gathered in, will be unknown and forgotten.
I As late as November, 1874, in excavating near the northerly corner of Union and Pearl Streets, three graves were found, in which but little remained. A coffin-plate was exhumed, bearing the inscription " James Gilbreth, aged 30," with the Masonic square . and compass. Mr. Gilbreth was a millwright, who lived at the Head of the Tide, and was buried with Masonic honors in 1820. Major Timothy Chase remembered attending his funeral. - Journal.
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In 1830, certain refinements of sepulture, introduced by modern taste, now fast superseding the austere simplicity of the Puri- tan settlers of this country, being in opposition to what they re- garded as superstitious observances, began to commend themselves to the people of Belfast, and the subject of a new place of burial received attention. At the town meeting of that year, a com- mittee, consisting of David Whittier, Joel Hills, Arvida Hayford, Bohan P. Field, and Peter H. Smith, were appointed to select a suitable place for a graveyard near the village. They reported in favor of a field north of the tannery of David G. Ames, on the upper bridge road, containing three acres, and extending to the shore, and in 1834 it was purchased by the town. The location, however, was objectionable; and the following year, under the recommendation of Philip Morrill, Joseph Williamson, and Peter Rowe, a new committee, the town voted to sell the lot, and to purchase five acres for $500, of Captain William Avery, on the Augusta road. This was the commencement of Grove Cemetery. Timothy Chase, Philip Morrill, Hiram O. Alden, N. M. Lowney, James White, Thomas Bartlett, and Frye Hall were authorized to lay out and fence the land, to sell lots, and to appropriate the pro- ceeds for adorning the premises. It is believed that the first inter- ment was that of the Rev. Alfred Johnson, in May, 1837. The lots were offered for sale at auction on the 7th of July, at a mini- mum price of one dollar. Not many were sold.
In 1865, an order for the enlargement of the cemetery was passed by the city government, by purchasing of Hon. W. P. Harriman about one acre and a half in the rear, for $200; and of Sullivan Hicks, one acre and a quarter on the west side, for a like sum.
The office of Superintendent was created in 1866; and John Poor, the present incumbent, was appointed. His duties are to lay out and define lots, to direct the grading and the planting of trees. The compensation is five per cent on the sale of lots.
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