Staples Hill Cemetery
Canton, Oxford County, Maine

a service of
V. F. Thomas Co. - 167 Thorne Mountain Road - Canton, Maine  04221
info@vfthomas.com


(updated 31 May 2019)





Other name(s). Buck Cemetery (Canton tax map U-2)

Location. UTM: 19T 0395339, 4921353; Lat./Long.: N 44°26′16.4″ x W 70°18′54.5″

Directions. From the intersection of Routes 108 and 140, travel east on Route 108 for less than 0.1 miles to the intersection on the right with Staples Hill Road. Turn right onto Staples Hill Road and the cemetery is on the right in .1–.2 miles.

Names and dates on gravestones and other markers: (incomplete)
BICKNELL
   George B. (son of Lucius and Mary [no stones?]) - d. 31 January 1842 Æ 1 y., 9 m., 17 d.
JONES
   Ezelle A[gu?]sta (dau. of Samuel and Isabelle A. (WARD) [no stones?]) - d. 1863 Æ 1 y.
   Prudence Chase (wife of Apollos [no stone?]) - b. 7 June 1776; d. 23 February 1858
LEACH
   Gideon - d. 24 July 1854 Æ 36 y. (gravestone; footstone)
MORTON
   Jacob L. (son of Elisha and Sarah H. [no stones?]) - d. 6 April 1827 Æ 3 y. (gravestone)
SHACKLEY
   Sarah (dau. of John and Susan [no stones?]) - d. 13 May 1850 Æ 36 y. (gravestone)



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