“Hope Historical Society — they have a lot on their Web site, including pictures of gravestones.”
At least, that’s the gist of a very brief conversation I had with State Registrar Liz Hotchkiss at the fall meeting of the Maine Daughters of the American Revolution. Liz is a member of Majabigwaduce Chapter in Hancock County, and Hope is in Knox County, but as we know, genealogists know something about a lot of things.
The Hope Historical Society Web site is easily found at www.hopehist.com.
I clicked on CONTINUE to get to a page that offered me more choices. I chose CEMETERIES.
Morey Hill Cemetery includes its GPS listing, which I think is wonderful: 44 degrees 14.959’ N. 69 degrees 11.293’ W.
Then there is a listing of names alphabetically, year they died, the stone number, feet from the NW wall, feet from the SW wall. An example: Bennett, Melissa d 1913 # 2/107/26. She died in 1913. She is stone number 2, 107 feet from the NW wall, 26 feet from the SW wall.
And, you can click on the name to see a photo of the gravestone.
Morey Hill Cemetery also has a photo of a gravestone with 36 names engraved on it, most of them people buried there who don’t have a marker of their own. Isn’t that a wonderful resource and memorial?
Hope Grove Cemetery has a GPS of 44 degrees 15.704’N 69 degrees 9.818’W
Some of the pictures of the stones have family information recorded underneath them.
The Web site also has a family section, with some information on each of these families:
– Barrett.
– Bartlett.
– Bills.
– Bowley.
– Crabtree.
– Dennison.
– Dunton.
– Ettlinger.
– Gould.
– Grassow.
– Harris.
– Hastings.
– Hewett.
– Hobbs.
– Jacobs.
– Keene.
– Layr.
– Merrifield.
– Norwood-Brodis.
– Payson.
– Pearse, John.
– Pearse, William.
– Philbrick.
– Pushaw.
– True.
– Woster.
Some of the family sections include photos, so do take a look.
One of the documents on the Web site is “Twenty Associates Map of Hope, Maine 1799.”
You’ll be interested to know that there is a Hope Historical Society House and Museum on Route 105.
The house was built by Henry Handley around 1818.
For information, call 763-3576 or send an e-mail inquiry to wijones@tidewater.net
The Hope Historical Society will hold its annual meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, at the town library.
The evening will begin with a potluck supper.
Ron Smith will give a program, “A Summer to Remember Walking the Appalachian Trail,” at 7 p.m.
The event is free. For information, call 785-4903.
As editor of the Midcoast Beacon, which has been published since May by the Bangor Daily News, I am learning more about the historical and genealogical doings in Waldo and Knox counties. It is a privilege.
What genealogical hints do you have to share?
Send queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, PO Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or e-mail familyti@bangordailynews.net
