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mcdude · 10-25-2012, 01:26 PM

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When Alton Mountain began to become settled, a cemetery was needed in the heart of the country on Avery Hill Road. After turning left at the corner gate, the Alton Mountain Cemetery lies on the right-hand side of the road, on a little hill about three quarters of a mile down. Here, many of the early settlers are buried along with their families in blood and in name. Veterans from the Revolution, the War of 1812 and Civil War are lad to rest here along with Nehemiah Sleeper for whom Sleeper’s Island is named. Today the cemetery is immensely overgrown with bushes and vandalism has taken its’ toll. Many grave stones have been knocked over, moved and some have even been stolen.

Just across from the dam on Place’s Mill road lies the family plot of the Sapirs. Behind the old summer house is a field and in the right back corner stands the massive rock that marks the graves of Edward Sapir and Jean V. Sapir. Before there were laws restricting it, many families buried their dead on their property, and this is an example of a family plot.

If you turn right at the corner gate and continue along Alton Mountain Road, it eventually turns to dirt and narrows out. At the end of the road where the Ellis and Hill houses once stood lies the Ellis cemetery. Here rests David Ellis, Alfred Ellis and his wife Mary, and their daughter Amanda. The Ellis Cemetery is still well kept and has flowers growing within its’ stone walls. Across the road from the Ellis Cemetery is a field of high grass where deer like to hide. If you walk through this field all the way to the back right corner, there is an old stone wall where there is a single grave, that of Betsey Flanders. Unlike the Ellis Cemetery this cemetery is all but forgotten.

Other settlers of Alton Mountain were buried on their farms and today their graves are lost under topsoil, but three settlers of the mountain are buried in the Hall’s Hill Cemetery - James Tibbetts and Jonathan Hill and his wife Mehitable.

P.S. the "Cornergate" IS the intersection of Alton Mt. Rd. and Avery Hill Rd.

10-25-2012, 01:26 PM	#2
mcdude Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME Posts: 5,361 Thanks: 374 Thanked 1,044 Times in 490 Posts	[QUOTE] When Alton Mountain began to become settled, a cemetery was needed in the heart of the country on Avery Hill Road. After turning left at the corner gate, the Alton Mountain Cemetery lies on the right-hand side of the road, on a little hill about three quarters of a mile down. Here, many of the early settlers are buried along with their families in blood and in name. Veterans from the Revolution, the War of 1812 and Civil War are lad to rest here along with Nehemiah Sleeper for whom Sleeper’s Island is named. Today the cemetery is immensely overgrown with bushes and vandalism has taken its’ toll. Many grave stones have been knocked over, moved and some have even been stolen. Just across from the dam on Place’s Mill road lies the family plot of the Sapirs. Behind the old summer house is a field and in the right back corner stands the massive rock that marks the graves of Edward Sapir and Jean V. Sapir. Before there were laws restricting it, many families buried their dead on their property, and this is an example of a family plot. If you turn right at the corner gate and continue along Alton Mountain Road, it eventually turns to dirt and narrows out. At the end of the road where the Ellis and Hill houses once stood lies the Ellis cemetery. Here rests David Ellis, Alfred Ellis and his wife Mary, and their daughter Amanda. The Ellis Cemetery is still well kept and has flowers growing within its’ stone walls. Across the road from the Ellis Cemetery is a field of high grass where deer like to hide. If you walk through this field all the way to the back right corner, there is an old stone wall where there is a single grave, that of Betsey Flanders. Unlike the Ellis Cemetery this cemetery is all but forgotten. Other settlers of Alton Mountain were buried on their farms and today their graves are lost under topsoil, but three settlers of the mountain are buried in the Hall’s Hill Cemetery - James Tibbetts and Jonathan Hill and his wife Mehitable. P.S. the "Cornergate" IS the intersection of Alton Mt. Rd. and Avery Hill Rd. Last edited by mcdude; 08-07-2017 at 06:41 AM.

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