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Harndon Hill Cemetery

Stow, Oxford County, Maine, USA

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    Coordinates: 44.22045, -70.97563
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Located on the north side of a discontinued town road, historically known as Harndon Hill Road, which is an extension of Old Deer Hill Road. A warranty deed filed at the Registry of Deeds in Fryeburg, Maine, on 7 March 1844, in Book 35, Page 444, indicates that Joshua Arling of Stow, Maine, for the sum of $10.00, gave title to this cemetery to Peter Fife, Agent of School District No. 4 in Stow. The deed reads as follows: "To District No. 4 and to all others that may want to bury on the land, a certain parcel of land in Stow commencing on the north side of the road from Cold River to Stoneham and on the east side of Isaac Arling's house, it being the burying ground now walled and fenced in and enough to contain ¼ of an acre and more if needed and the fence and wall to be kept in good repair, and it is to be free for all to bury in."
There are only three gravestones in this cemetery that have inscriptions: one for Abigail Gray, one for two children of Samuel & Phylindia Brown, and one stone with the inscription "J.J.," which possibly may be Jeremiah P. Jenness, whose death is recorded in the vital records of Stow as April 29, 1842. However, several rough stones undoubtedly mark graves of unidentified persons. A 1902 newspaper article about the area where this cemetery is located indicates the following: "Not the least pathetic is the little cemetery where lie perhaps twenty of those who lived and walked together. Some friend has kindly fenced with barbed wire the small cluster of graves, that they may be safe from the intrusion of cattle in the pastures nearby." See more from this article in biography of Patience Arling on this site.
Located on the north side of a discontinued town road, historically known as Harndon Hill Road, which is an extension of Old Deer Hill Road. A warranty deed filed at the Registry of Deeds in Fryeburg, Maine, on 7 March 1844, in Book 35, Page 444, indicates that Joshua Arling of Stow, Maine, for the sum of $10.00, gave title to this cemetery to Peter Fife, Agent of School District No. 4 in Stow. The deed reads as follows: "To District No. 4 and to all others that may want to bury on the land, a certain parcel of land in Stow commencing on the north side of the road from Cold River to Stoneham and on the east side of Isaac Arling's house, it being the burying ground now walled and fenced in and enough to contain ¼ of an acre and more if needed and the fence and wall to be kept in good repair, and it is to be free for all to bury in."
There are only three gravestones in this cemetery that have inscriptions: one for Abigail Gray, one for two children of Samuel & Phylindia Brown, and one stone with the inscription "J.J.," which possibly may be Jeremiah P. Jenness, whose death is recorded in the vital records of Stow as April 29, 1842. However, several rough stones undoubtedly mark graves of unidentified persons. A 1902 newspaper article about the area where this cemetery is located indicates the following: "Not the least pathetic is the little cemetery where lie perhaps twenty of those who lived and walked together. Some friend has kindly fenced with barbed wire the small cluster of graves, that they may be safe from the intrusion of cattle in the pastures nearby." See more from this article in biography of Patience Arling on this site.

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