Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine. Located in today's Katherine Tinker Preserve,[1] it is now closed to burials.[2]
Hill Cemetery | |
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Details | |
Established | 1831 |
Location | |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 43°45′54″N 70°08′30″W / 43.7649°N 70.1416°W |
Type | Private |
Find a Grave | Hill Cemetery |
The cemetery is so named because it contains only members of the Hill family, with dates of death ranging from 1831 to 1899.[3] It includes burials of Revolutionary War veterans.[4]
References
edit- ^ 'Every weekend if the weather cooperates' – Sun Journal, October 1, 2017
- ^ Cemeteries in Yarmouth – Town of Yarmouth website
- ^ Cousins and Littlejohn's Islands, 1645–1893, Katherine Prescott Kaster (1942)
- ^ Revolutionary War Graves Register, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993) ISBN 9780960718825