Five Corners Cemetery

The land for this cemetery was donated to the town by Eliah Hubbard around 1800; the first burial there was apparently in 1811. The cemetery was used until 1905, by which time the village population had dwindled. After that, residents of the area would probably have been buried in the Plymouth Notch Cemetery. To visit the Five Corners Cemtery today, drive through Coolidge State Park. The rangers there gave me these directions: turn left at th fork in the road. You'll be on Bradley Hill Road; follow it down about 3/4 mi. and there will be a sign that says Cemetery Road. Go straight on Cemetery Road. It deadends at someone's home (it's posted as such). You can park there and there's a little sign that says "Five Corners Cemetery" that directs you onto a footpath to the cemetery. From there you will have to walk about 500 yards. This inventory is primarily from Plymouth burials before 1870, from 1919 gravestone readings by Floyd Hadley, which is in the Plymouth town clerk's office, and is available on microfilm through the Family History Library (film #28688). Those gravestone transcriptions were done under Act No. 92 of 1919, "An Act to Provide for the Completion of the Vital Records of the State and to Require Town Clerks to Transmit Certain Records to the Secretary of State." That Act directed the Secretary of State to determine which town's records had not yet been deposited with the state, and provide forms for transcription; the towns were to transcribe and send to the state all birth, marriage, and death records in possession of the town or churches, which had not already been submitted. If the town death records prior to 1870 were incomplete, "The selectmen....shall, before October 1, 1919, cause to be copied at the expense of the town under the direction of the secretary of state, the inscription on all gravestones in their town erected to the memory of any person who died prior to 1870 so far as relates to name of deceased, date of death, age or date of birth, if given, and the name of the cemetery where buried and shall cause such records to be recorded in the town records." The Act further provided that records were to be made available for reference; the effective date was 26 March 1919. Material in italics is from the list of people buried in this cemetery that was included in Plymouth Kingdom and Plymouth Five Corners: A study of the Social and Historical Patterns in Two Nineteenth Century Vermont Settlements, written in 1970 by a group of students from Earlham College in Indiana.

Name Date of Death Age Abbot, Samuel, son of Asa & Lydia 6 Aug 1815 21 y Acley, Alonzo, son of Levi & Fanny 28 Aug 1818 7 m 39d [sic] Acley, infant son of Levi & Fanny 30 Mar 1819 2d Adams, Andrew R. 16 July 1870 70 y Adams, Betsy, wife of A.R. Adams 5 Sept 1854 53 y Adams, David L. 24 Mar 1828 3 m Adams, Daniel A., son of Joel & Lydia 24 Mar 1828 3 m Adams, Lorenzo, son of A.R. & Betsey 27 Mar 1828 2 m 15 d Adams, Melintha, wife of Nathan 1 Nov 1854 50 y Adams, Nathan 22 Feb 1819 42 y Adams, Nathan, son of Nathan & Melinthee 25 Nov 1823 8 d Adams, Nathan 13 July 1854 51 y 7 m Adams, Sally, wife of Nathan 2 Nov 1849 75y Adams, Sarah 15 Oct 1845 19 y Archer, Clara A. 26 Dec 1882 2 y 10 m 24 d Bates, Francis A., son of H. & H. 2 Feb 1851 10 m 18 d Bates, Lydia, wife of Lyman 18 Apr 1853 65 y Bates, William E. , son of Hanson & Hannah 20 Jan 1851 2 y 10 m 20 d Briggs, Amanda, infant no dates Briggs, Anna, wife of Jesse 8 June 1831 37 y Briggs, Emily, daughter of Noah & Phebe 11 Apr 1858 49 y Briggs, Henry S. F. 18 Feb 1874 4? y Briggs, Noah 10 June 1858 78 y Briggs, Persis, wife of Noah 14 Aug 1857 74 y Briggs, Phebe, wife of Noah 14 Oct 1824 41 y Brown, Edward 25 Aug 1877 66 y Brown, Frances Maria, daughter of E. & R.C. 27 Jan 1860 20 y Brown, John E. 13 Mar 1859 21 y Brown, Rachel C. Churchill, wife of Edward 20 Dec 1857 47 y Butler, Stephen M Co. F, USSS 14 Dec 1889 58 y 9 m 22 d Carlisle, Betsy, wife of Ara M. 3 May 1842 20 y Carlisle, Ellen S. Gilson, wife of Forest L. 10 Sept 1889 49 y 9 m Carlisle, Forest L. 16 May 1888 53 y 26 d Carlisle, Inf. Dau., daughter of Lewis & Lydia 11 Apr 1832 Carlisle, Lewis 7 Aug 1873 88 y 2 m Carlisle, Lewis S. 22 Dec 1864 54 y 4 m Carlisle, Lucia F., wife of Lewis S. 1 Sept 1878 64 y 8 m 6 d Carlisle, Luzetta M., daughter of L.W. & Ellen A. 23 Oct 1852 2 y 11 m Carlisle, Lydia, wife of Lewis 20 Jan 1855 64 y Carlile, Polly, daughter of Lewis & Lydia 20 Apr 1832 1 y 10 m Carlisle, Solomon B. 8 Mar 1855 40 y 6 m Carlisle, William B., son of Lewis & Lydia 24 Jan 1819 2 y note: Some corrections to the Carlisle listings in the inventories have been provided by Walter Sadler: the stone for Lewis who d. 1873, the full ages for Forest & Lucia, and the middle initials for Lucia and her husband Lewis S. Mr. Sadler also provided photos of these stones. Davis, Thomas 26 Oct 1828 80 y Dike, Elvira, wife of Amos W. 8 Dec 1844 24 y Dike, Infant son of Amos & Elvira 26 Feb 1845 4 m Duncan, Charlotte M., daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth 28 Dec 1837 18 y Earle, Albert 18 Dec 1856 16 y 9 m Earle, Alpheus 12 Sept 1850 59 y Earle, Estella A., daughter of A.N. & A.P. 14 Sept 1848 2 y 10 m Earle, Julia G. 8 June 1857 24 y Earle, Polly Boynton, wife of Alpheus 14 Dec 1885 88 y 9 m Fay, Rebecca Feb 1862 66 y 10 Fay, Robin S. 22 Jan 1866 39 y [appears in the 1970 inventory as:] Fay, Rolin S. 22 Jan 1856 29 y Fletcher, Betsy, wife of Reuben 15 Oct 1835 53 y Fletcher, Infant, child of Reuben & Betsy 2 Jan 1909 [sic] 9 d Fletcher, Infant, child of Reuben & Betsy 14 July 1823 5 m Fletcher, Deborah, wife of Henry 4 May 1826 74 y 11 m Fletcher, Henry, son of Henry & Deborah 5 Mar 1813 13 y 7 m 20 d Fletcher, Henry 17 Apr 1829 78 y Fletcher, Louisa 29 June 1823 9 m 20 d Fletcher, Moses, son of Henry & Deborah 27 Feb 1811 19 y 7 m 15 d Fletcher, Rebeckah, daughter of Henry & Deborah 1828 35 y Fletcher, Reuben 6 Nov 1879 95 y 11 m Fletcher, Sally 2 Jan 1830 27 y 7 m Fletcher, Sarah, daughter of Reuben & Betsey 9 Mar 1850 30 y Foster, Henry 21 Aug 1864 21 y Foster, John A. 8 May 1872 21 y Foster, Lucretia Sumner, wife of Luther 18 Aug 1901 b. 13 Jan 1820 Foster, Luther 3 Jan 1865 64 y Hale, Clarissa, daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth Sept 1837 16 y Hale, Eleanor 24 Mar 1849 61 y Hale, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel 11 May 1857 73 y Hale, Samuel 27 Jan 1851 66 y Headle, Joel 22 Feb 1853 66 y Headle, Joseph 14 Mar 1864 79 y (b. 2 Mar 1785) Headle, Lucy, wife of Joseph 16 Jan 1888 86 y (b. 22 Sept 1882) Headle, Malinda daughter of Joel & Elizabeth 15 Apr 1853 22 y 6 m Headle, Marcella daughter of Joel & Elizabeth 3 Mar 1835 3 y 6 m Headle, Mary 13 Apr 1864 16 y (b. 24 Jan 1848) Headle, Sally 10 Dec 1824 28 y Holland, Adella P. , wife of Thos. W. 21 Jan 1863 33 y Hosley, Asa 25 June 1853 80 y Hosley, Betsey, wife of Asa 27 Jan 1869 87 y 5 m Hubbard (Perhaps this stone was put up in memory of all the Hubbards buried in the cemetery.) Johnson, Caroline, daughter of Luther & Abigail 25 Feb 1847 13 m Johnson, Cyrus 26 Jan 1886 74 y Johnson, Edward K. 8 Mar 1868 16 y Johnson, Ellen R., daughter of Cyrus & Eurydice 13 Sept 1848 7 y Johnson, Eurydice, wife of Cyrus 2 Oct 1905 86 y Johnson, Flora E. 9 Apr 1883 18 y Johnson, Luther 7 Mar 1837 61 y Johnson, Mary P., wife of Asa 14 Nov 1844 27 y Johnson, Nancy, wife of Luther 25 Jan 1854 72 y Johnson, Rebekah, wife of Cyrus 1 Feb 1840 22 y Johnson, Walter S., son of Cyrus & Eurydice 10 Sept 1848 5 y Lyon, Abigail 11 Sept 1868 73 y Lyon, Albert, son of Daniel & Abigail 25 July 1831 1 y Lyon, Daniel 1 Mar 1854 69 y Lyon, Miriam, wife of Edward 22 May 1828 68 y Lyon, Polly, wife of Daniel 2 July 1829 51 y Marsh, Augusta Jane 12 Sept 1852 1 y 6 m Marsh, Daniel 16 May 1827 32 y Marsh, Horace 4 June 1843 36 y Marsh, Jacob Esq. 1 Dec 1833 62 y Marsh, Lydia, wife of Jacob 1 July 1861 89 y 10 m 8 d Marsh, Sarah A., daughter of Asa & Sarah 15 Mar 1827 2 y Pelton, Freeman 13 Jan 1847 88 y Pelton, Hannah 14 Apr 1862 75 y Pelton, Martin 16 Nov 1866 77 y Pelton, Prudence 7 Mar 1819 24 d Pelton, Prudence 12 Sept 1861 96 y Pelton, Rebecca Kindreck, wife of Martin 16 Jan 1879 87 y Pollard, James 9 Apr 1856 86 y 6 m Pollard, Rhoda, wife of James 6 July 1862 87 y 9 m Pratt, Abigail, daughter of Timothy & Judith 13 Sept 1820 7 y 8 m 24 d Pratt, Ann D., daughter of Timothy & Judith 23 Sept 1843 27 y Pratt, Asa 18 Mar 1841 82 y Pratt, Judith, wife of Timothy 29 June 1873 85 y Pratt, Mabel, wife of Asa 14 Mar 1843 73 y Pratt, Sarah, wife of Asa 16 Aug 1815 52 y Pratt, Timothy 31 Oct 1869 82 y 5 m Preston, James E., son of L.A. & P. M. 28 Mar 1865 3 y 6 m 16 d Rice, Elizabeth S., wife of George C. 25 Mar 1845 28 y Russell, Ashton G., son of Alanzo & Sarah M. 24 Aug 1852 1 y 11 m Russell, Nathan 31 Jan 1857 74 y 6 m Sargent, James E. 29 June 1886 [sic?] 23 y Slack, Adelphia Billings,, wife of Joel B. 25 July 1864 30 y 9 m 14 d Slack, Electa, wife of Joel M. 3 Aug 1878 58 y Slack, Ellen M., daughter of E. K. 7 Oct 1864 2 y 8 m 8 d Slack, infant, daughter of J. M. & Electa 18 Aug 1851 Slack, Jennette G. dau. of D. Burt, wife of Eben K. 3 Nov 1861 24 y 7 m 13 d Slack, Joel 14 Oct 1845 77 y Slack, Joel M. 20 May 1882 72 y 11 m Slack, Lydia, wife of Joel 18 May 1857 74 y Slack, Martin [Y.] B. 14 Apr 1860 23 y 9 m Slack, Mary E., daughter of Reuben & Prudence 27 Feb 1860 20 y 3 m Slack, Norie, daughter of Joel B. & Adelphia 30 Aug 1863 11 y 10 m 20 d Slack, Prudence Bartlett, wife of Reuben K. 15 Nov 1890 81 y 3 m Slack, Reuben K. 7 Apr 1860 53 y 11 m Slack, Sally Almira, wife of Joel M. 29 May 1843 23 y Slack, Standish, son of Joel M. & Electa 16 Oct 1846 10 y 21 d Trudo, Nancy Jane, wife of Augustus 11 Sept 1887 43 y Walker, Alida, daughter of Oren & Sarah 9 June 1885 22 y Walker, Elizabeth, wife of Warren 8 Mar 1877 85 y Walker, Lucy, wife of Warren 1 Oct 1840 38 y Walker, Olney, son of Oren & Sarah 3 Feb 1862 2 y 2 m 13 d Walker, Oren 12 Aug 1893 70 y Walker, Sarah H. Duncan, wife of Oren no dates Walker, Warren 3 Feb 1878 81 y 11 m West, Julia Ann, wife of E. T. West 13 July 1841 32 y West, two infant daughters of Julia [same date] Whitcomb, George W. 12 Mar 1849 75 y Whitcomb, Hezron, son of Wm. & Olivia L. 15 Aug 1858 3 y Willis, Dr. James 1 May 1828 75 y 29 d Willis, Elijah H. 6 Jan 1881 64 y 4 m 22 d Willis, Elvin Lee, son of Elijah & Mary 8 May 1865 2 y 3 m 28 d Willis, Ida Dell, daughter of Elijah & Mary 28 Apr 1869 2 y 4 m 3 d Willis, James E., son of Elijah & Mary L. 3 Apr 1851 4 y 5 m 8 d Willis, Katherine V., daughter of Elijah & Mary L. 3 July 1855 6 y 8 m 4 d Willis, Mary L., wife of Elijah H. 9 Sept 1858 33 y 25 d Works, Calista P. Earle, wife of B. B. 7 Aug 1864 33 y

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