South Branch Cemetery in Levant, Maine

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Get directions Levant, Maine, USA

Coordinates: 44.88037, -68.93562
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No one has been buried here since 1935, with most burials seemingly from the Civil War era. The site is a small, long rectangle surrounded on 3 sides by trees and with only a narrow frontage to a dead-end road. The graves are neatly set out facing north or south. On inspection c.2015, there were a significant number of toppled, strewn, broken stones. This remains easily the most decrepit, unmaintained cemetery this writer has ever had the displeasure to witness. A second visit a year or so later found all the unattached stones literally thrown into a little, natural pit at the rear of the cemetery. They are now unsafe to access and the little pieces will never be read again. As a result, there are many (perhaps the majority of) graves now left unmarked. Almost all of the remaining stones are worn and/or partly broken. Quite a few stones are entirely illegible. Only a few of the newer, larger monuments are undamaged by man or nature. The writer has meticulously photographed every single standing stone and posted those pictures. Unless a gravestone has been accidently overlooked, it simply no longer exists or cannot be read. Someone (probably from the Town) places flags all over the place in summer but there is no one left to care for the memory of these souls.