Location. Along east side of Beech Hill Road. UTM: 19T 0551988, 4908633. Lat./Long.: N 44°19′44.8″ x W 68°20′52.6″.

Directions. From the intersection of Routes 3 and 102/198 at the north end of Mount Desert Island, go straight ahead (south) onto Routes 102/198. In approximately 5.2 miles (and at the south end of the village of Somesville), turn right onto Pretty Marsh Road (Route 102). In about 0.2–0.3 miles, turn left onto Beech Hill Road. (Note: this turn is easy to pass as it is just over a hill and in a curve.) The cemetery is on the left in approximately 2.0–2.1 miles.

History. Mrs. Seth Thornton (Nellie Rebecca Carroll), in her 1938 book Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor and Somesville, described this cemetery “on the level plain of Beech Hill” as “a little yard where sleep many of the early pioneers of Mount Desert Island” (p. 235). She called it the “Beech Hill Burying Ground”, but now [2011] a wooden sign fastened to a tree bears the inscription &@8220;Wasgatt / Cemetery / 1840”.

Notes. On 17 May 1999, no stone was found for the “young Swedish man who was drowned in Echo Lake a few years ago and whose antecedents were unknown here”Œ (Thornton, 1938, p. 236). All graves are oriented in a west-east direction, with the head of the grave at the west. This cemetery is not enclosed.

Names and dates on gravestones and other markers: (complete as of 1 May 2013)
BABBIDGE
   Irving H. [husb. of Mary R.?] - b. 1 February 1882; d. 8 December 1938 (lot; gravestone)
   Mary R. [wife of Irving H.?] - b. 30 January 1894; d. 2 February 1946 (lot; gravestone)
BAKER
   Benjamin D. - d. 14 September 1882 Æ 82 y., 7 m. (gravestone; footstone)
BARTON
   Annie M. (dau. of Brunswick B. and Mary T.) - b. 1909; d. 1917 (gravestone top; gravestone front)
   Brunswick B. (husb. of Mary T.) - b. 1878; d. 1964 (headstone)
   Jennie E. (dau. of Brunswick B. and Mary T.) - b. 1904; d. 1922 (gravestone)
   Mary T. (wife of Brunswick B.) - b. 1872; d. 1951 (headstone)
BLACK
   Hazel C. - b. 1919; d. 1921 (gravestone)
BROWN
   Clarence E. (husb. of Mercy T.) - b. 1874; d. 1946 (headstone)
   Lyndon S. - b. 1899; d. 1920 (headstone)
   Mercy T. (wife of Clarence E.) - b. 1875; d. 1969 (headstone)
   Merle C. - b. 1902; d. 1920 (headstone)
   Thomas B. (son of Clarence E. and Mercy T.) - b. 7 April 1907; d. 28 October 1932 (gravestone)
CARTER
   C. Catherine [wife of Reuben W.] - b. 1843; d. 1901 (headstone)
   John (husb. of Mary S.) - d. 11 March 1890 Æ 89 y., 11 m., 8 d. (headstone)
   Mary S. (wife of John) - d. 18 October 1889 Æ 88 y., 7 m., 6 d. (headstone)
   Reuben W. [husb. of C. Catherine] - b. 1839; d. 1935 (headstone)
CIRARD
   Jennie - b. 30 July 1895; d. 7 July 1944 (gravestone)
CLARK
   Deborah (wife of John) - d. 17 November 1851 Æ 55 y.
   John (husb. of Sarah H., Deborah, and Mary E.) - d. 2 May 1857 Æ 75 y.
   Margaret D. W. (dau. of John and Sarah H.) - d. 3 September 1825¹ Æ 2 y., 2 m., 15 d.
   Mary E. (wife of John) - d. 17 November 1853 Æ 61 y.
   Mercy H. (dau. of John and Sarah H.) - d. 12 September 1825¹ Æ 5 y., 5 m.
   Sarah H. (wife of John) - d. 24² March 1844 Æ 39 y., 1 m.
FINNEY
   Anna M. (wife of John T. [no stone]) - d. 15 January 1880 Æ 38 y.
   Lydia D. (wife of Thomas B.) - b. 1815; d. 1893 (gravestone)
   Thomas B. (husb. of Lydia D.) - d. 19 July 1849 Æ 34 y., 1 m., 21 d.
GILLEY
   infant (son of John M. and Mary D.) - d. 26 November 1844 Æ 3 d.
   John M. (husb. of Mary D.) - d. 5 May 1864 Æ 45 y.; ("fell at the battle of the wilderness"; member of Co. D, 1st Maine Cavalry [Civil War])
   Mary D. (wife of John M.) - d. 27 December 1844 Æ 26 y., 10 m.
GREENLAW
   Shirley - b. 1921; d. 1988 (lot; gravestone)
   Theodora (WAKEFIELD) - b. 1929; d. 1948 (lot; gravestone)
HIBBARD
   Fred B. - b. 1908; d. 1969
MASON
   Freddie W. (son of Ezra G. [no stone] and Louisa L.) - d. 2 March 1884 Æ 9 y., 10 m., 22 d.
   Louisa L. (wife of Ezra G. [no stone]) - d. 20 September 1909 Æ 64 y., 4 m., 20 d.
MERCHANT
   Gifford L. - [no dates] (gravestone)
   Lissie M. - [no dates] (gravestone)
   Mary E. (mother of Melissa) - b. 25 February 1920; d. 29 May 2004 (headstonoe)
   Melissa (dau. of Mary H.) - [no dates] (headstone)
OUELLETTE
   Fred - b. 1912; d. 1964 (gravestone)
REED
   Almira E. (wife of Andrew H. [no stone]) - d. 1 October 1878 Æ 19 y., 10 m., 16 d. (gravestone, footstone)
   Jared R. - b. 20 June 1907; d. 19 October 1969
RICHARDSON
   Alice C. - b. 30 January 1920; d. 1 November 2011
   Arthur S. - b. 25 March 1895; d. 30 April 1957 (gravestone)
   Edgar N. - b. 3 October 1898; d. 15 December 1968 (gravestone)
   John G. [husb. of Mary C.] - b. 1826; d. 1902 (lot; headstone)
   Mary C. [wife of John G.] - b. 1835; d. 1924 (lot; headstone)
   William H. - b. 1 April 1873; d. 11 December 1942 (gravestone)
ROBINSON
   Henry (husb. of Joanna M.) - b. 1820; d. 1888 (headstone)
   Ira F. [husb. of June A.?] - b. 1888; d. 1966 (gravestone)
   Joanna M. (wife of Henry) - b. 1818; d. 1903 (headstone)
   June A. [wife of Ira F.?] - b. 1899; d. 1974 (gravestone)
   Lydia J. (dau. of Henry and Joanna M.) - d. 1845 Æ 4 y.
   Martha A. (dau. of Henry and Joanna M.) - d. 1845 Æ 4⁸ m. (gravestone, footstone)
TUA[L?]³
   Mark (Rev.) - d. 15 July 1841 Æ 33 y., 6 m. (gravestone; footstone)
WAKEFIELD
    [Theodora - see GREENLAW]
WASGATT [includes WASGOTT]
   Asa (Rev.; husb. of Sarah) - d. 2[3 or 2?]⁴ January 187[9?]⁴ Æ [...5?]⁴ y., [...]⁴ (lot; gravestone; footstone)
   David - d. 18 December 1861 Æ 71 y. (gravestone; footstone)
   Davis (Esq.; husb. of Rachel) - d. 27 November 1843 Æ 92 y. (lot; gravestone; footstone)
   Emma J. (wife of Thomas A.) - b. 20 June 1837; d. [no date] (lot; headstone)
   Rachel (wife of Esq. Davis) - d. 30⁵ June 1841 Æ 89 y. (lot; gravestone; footstone)
   Sarah (wife of Rev. Asa) - d. 29 December 1855 Æ 59 y., 4 m., 6 d. (lot; gravestone; footstone)
   Sarah E. (dau. of Rev. Asa and Sarah) - d. 8 July 1849, Boston, Massachusetts, Æ 28 y., 4 m., 6 d. (lot; gravestone; footstone)
   Thomas A. (husb. of Emma J.) - b. 10 May 1823; d. 16 May 1880 (lot; headstone; footstone)
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Notes:
   ¹Thornton (1938, p. 236) noted that 1825 was a “the year when the dread disease diphtheria swept over Mount Desert taking heavy toll among little children”.
   ²Thornton (1938, p. 236) gave the date of death as 21 March.
   ³Stone broken. Thornton (1938, p. 236) gave the last name as TUEL. The first three letters on the stone, however, are clearly TUA.
   ⁴Stone worn and cracked.
   ⁵Thornton (1938, p. 235) gave the day as 3 June.
   ⁶Metal grave marker with all letters missing.
   ⁷A grave with no headstone, but its perimeter outlined by rough stones set into the ground. At this grave is a “G. A. R.” marker [Civil War].
   ⁸The diagonal and horizontal strokes of a 4 are not evident, causing this number to appear to be 1. However, the digit is followed by "mo's." implying more than 1. Also, the top of the vertical stroke resembles the top of the 4 in “1845” more than it resembles the top of the 1.