Caverly Cemetery
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Caverly Cemetery

Strafford, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA

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  • Get directions Old Settlers Road
    Strafford, New Hampshire 03884 United States
    Coordinates: 43.23146, -71.11911
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This very small cemetery is located on Old Canaan Road, now known as Old Settlers Road. This dirt road used to go from Canaan Back Road through to Province Road, but no longer goes all the way through. The cemetery is closest to Province Road and can be accessed by going down a paved driveway next to the power lines that turns to dirt and is actually the Old Canaan Road. The cemetery is located approximately .1 mile from Province Road on a small bluff at the edge of the pasture on the east side of Old Canaan Road. It cannot be seen from the road but a short jaunt up the side of the bluff reveals the granite blocks that surround the graveyard. There is an entry gate on the NW corner. The cemetery is quite unkempt and completely overgrown with brush and thorn bushes.

The Caverly cemetery contains only three graves: Asa, his wife Betsey and their son Eddie. Three identical white marble gravestones on a single base mark the graves. The gravestones were erected by Stephen B. Leighton some time after the death of Betsey Caverly in 1890. Stephen had purchased the Caverly homestead for $5000 in 1888 and an agreement to supply life support to Betsey, after the death of her husband Asa in 1886.



New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association database cemetery code S17-6A3



This very small cemetery is located on Old Canaan Road, now known as Old Settlers Road. This dirt road used to go from Canaan Back Road through to Province Road, but no longer goes all the way through. The cemetery is closest to Province Road and can be accessed by going down a paved driveway next to the power lines that turns to dirt and is actually the Old Canaan Road. The cemetery is located approximately .1 mile from Province Road on a small bluff at the edge of the pasture on the east side of Old Canaan Road. It cannot be seen from the road but a short jaunt up the side of the bluff reveals the granite blocks that surround the graveyard. There is an entry gate on the NW corner. The cemetery is quite unkempt and completely overgrown with brush and thorn bushes.

The Caverly cemetery contains only three graves: Asa, his wife Betsey and their son Eddie. Three identical white marble gravestones on a single base mark the graves. The gravestones were erected by Stephen B. Leighton some time after the death of Betsey Caverly in 1890. Stephen had purchased the Caverly homestead for $5000 in 1888 and an agreement to supply life support to Betsey, after the death of her husband Asa in 1886.



New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association database cemetery code S17-6A3



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