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Mount Desert Street Cemetery

Other Burials

Beyond the eight families with full stories on this site, more than a hundred other people are buried at the Mount Desert Street Cemetery. Some have rich research notes; many are little more than a name and a date on a stone. This page lists everyone we know of so far, organized by family. Each name links to the person's Find a Grave memorial page; where research notes exist they're shown below the name.

BEVERLY

Two of the three Beverly brothers — sons of James and Eunice Beverly of Hancock, Maine — were buried here in the 1840s and 1860s. Their household in the 1850 census also included the Suminsbey family of this cemetery as boarders, which is likely why all of them ended up here together.

Reproduction of an old vital record showing the December 2, 1822 birth of Stephen H. Beverly in Eden, Maine.
Stephen H. Beverly's birth record, 1822. The form lists Eden as the place of birth, James Beverly as the father, and Eunice (Higgins) Beverly as the mother. [HC vitals]
  • Stephen H Beverly, 1822 – 16 Dec 1845 — Eldest son of James and Eunice Beverly, born December 2, 1822 in Hancock, Maine. Died at twenty-three on December 16, 1845 in Bar Harbor; no cause listed in the records. He had two brothers and four sisters; his original birth record survives in the Hancock County vital records. [FG · stone · research · HC vitals]
  • William D Beverly, 27 Sep 1835 – 4 Jan 1862 — Stephen's younger brother, born September 27, 1835 in Hancock. Enlisted in the Union Army on October 25, 1861 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, with the Thirteenth Infantry. Died in Bar Harbor a few months later, on January 4, 1862, at twenty-six. [FG · stone · research · Maine AG]

BREWER

Edward L. Brewer was a Hulls Cove farmer, the son of a prolific local shipbuilder. He served in the Civil War and outlived two wives, both of whom are buried here: his first wife Betsey (Higgins) Brewer, who died young at 28, and his second wife Zena (Higgins) Brewer, the daughter of Captain Zaccheus Higgins.

Newspaper obituary of Edward L. Brewer Jr., printed in Bar Harbor in 1915, listing his pallbearers and family connections.
Edward L. Brewer Jr.'s obituary, from the Bar Harbor Times (1915). It records the funeral at the Church of Our Father in Hulls Cove, the Whitmore-led quartet that sang, and the pallbearers — four Brewer nephews alongside David and Serenus Rodick. [BHT]
  • Zena Wasgatt (Higgins) Brewer, 27 Nov 1822 – 1896 — Daughter of Captain Zaccheus Higgins and Sarah Leland, born November 27, 1822. She first married S. Blithen Higgins in 1844 and was widowed at thirty-two when he died in 1856 in ill health. She had been engaged to Capt. John Leland, but his ship wrecked in a gale off Cape Cod in 1863 and he was lost at sea. She later married Edward L. Brewer. She died of bronchitis in September 1896 at seventy-four. [FG · stone · research]
  • Edward L. Brewer Jr., 1833 – 1915 — His father (also Edward) came to Hulls Cove from Freeport and was the patriarch of the Brewer family on Mount Desert Island, running mills and a lumbering operation on Duck Brook and Hulls Cove Brook; Edward Jr. assisted in those operations. Enlisted in the Civil War at twenty-two. After Betsey died he married her relative Zena W. Higgins. He spent his last fifteen years living with the Pineos — Mrs. Pineo was Zena's niece. He died at eighty-one in 1915. His funeral, at the Church of Our Father in Hulls Cove, included a quartet of Frank and Harold Whitmore, G. Prescott Cleaves, and Fred Wescott; the bearers were four of his Brewer nephews — Frank, Chester, Fred, and Orient — alongside David and Serenus Rodick. [FG · stone · research · BHT]
  • Betsey Brewer, 1841 – 14 Sep 1864 — Born Betsey Higgins on June 24, 1836 — daughter of Stephen and Ann Maria Higgins. Married Edward L. Brewer in March 1860. Their only son Edgar was born the following year. She died as a young mother in September 1864 at twenty-eight. [FG · stone · research]

BUNKER

Mary E. Bunker was born Mary E. Leland and married Eri L. Bunker; her headstone is the only Bunker stone in this cemetery.

  • Mary E (Leland) Bunker, 29 Jun 1857 – 23 Dec 1880 — Wife of Eri L. Bunker. Died at twenty-three in December 1880. [FG · stone]

COLE

CONNERS

John Conners and his wife Julia were elderly when they died — he at 75, she at 82. The Connorses, along with the Robertses and the Suminsbys, rented rowboats and canoes to early tourists on the Bar Harbor waterfront in the 1870s.

An obituary clipping for Mrs. Julia J. Conners, widow of John Conners, who died at the age of 82.
Julia J. Conners's obituary, 1894. She and John had owned the Dorr farm in early Bar Harbor; after John's death she lived with her son Capt. Alfred Conners until her own death at 82. [BHT]
  • Julia J. Conners, 1812 – 9 Mar 1894 — Wife of John Conners. Died at eighty-two in March 1894, six years after her husband. Her obituary records that she and John owned the Dorr farm in early Bar Harbor (later subdivided into a settlement); that she was a sister of John and George Lyman; and that she had spent her last years living with her son Capt. Alfred Conners after John's death. [FG · stone · BHT]

COOK

Zella B. Cook was the wife of Samuel N. Cook. She died at twenty in January 1885 — likely in the same diphtheria outbreak that swept through Bar Harbor that winter, killing the Dorr children, Gracie Frost, and others. Very little else is known about her.

  • Zella B. Cook, 12 May 1864 – 22 Jan 1885 — no bio yet [FG · stone · research]

CUNNINGHAM

The Cunninghams lost two babies — an unnamed daughter at six months old in 1882, and Laura at eleven months in May 1886, during the diphtheria outbreak that also killed Ophelia and Aquaie Alley.

DAY

John W. Day, son of Moses and Mary B. Day, died at twenty-four in August 1848. Three of the other Day burials here are the children Alfred, Katie, and Lewis — siblings whose dates are partly illegible on the stones.

  • John W Day, 1824 – 1 Aug 1848 — Son of Moses and Mary B. Day. There may be a Civil War letter connection — the family appears to overlap with a different John W. Day who served in the war. [FG · stone · research]

DORR

The Dorr family lived in Columbia Falls, on the Maine coast east of Bar Harbor, but in the winter of 1884–85 three of them were buried here. Sixteen-year-old Lura died of diphtheria on January 17, 1885; her six-year-old sister Ethel died seven days later. Their mother Olive followed two months after that. Their father Thomas remarried in 1886 and is buried in Columbia. (These Dorrs are not related to the famous George Bucknam Dorr, the "father of Acadia.")

  • Olive E (Lord) Dorr, 1837 – 14 Mar 1885 — Wife of Thomas T. Dorr, mother of Lura, Ethel, and Cora. Died of diphtheria in Bar Harbor on March 14, 1885 at forty-eight — two months after she lost both of her younger daughters. [FG · stone · research]
  • Lura A. Dorr, 24 Oct 1868 – 17 Jan 1885 — Daughter of Thomas T. and Olive E. Dorr. Died of diphtheria at sixteen on January 17, 1885. [FG · stone · research]
  • Ethel Z. Dorr, 23 Oct 1878 – 24 Jan 1885 — Daughter of Thomas T. and Olive E. Dorr. Died of diphtheria at six years old on January 24, 1885 — a week after her older sister Lura. [FG · stone · research]

EVELETH

Frances C. Eveleth was a man — his name shows up in the Bar Harbor papers selling his two-story dwelling house on Forest Street to J. M. Edwards, who moved it up to the street line and remodeled it as a two-tenement dwelling. He died at fifty-two in April 1883.

A short newspaper item reporting that Frances C. Eveleth has sold his two-story house on Forest Street.
The Forest Street sale. Frances C. Eveleth — despite the given name, a man — sold his two-story dwelling on Forest Street to J. M. Edwards, who moved it up to the street line and remodeled it as a two-tenement dwelling. The clipping is the only documentary trace of him we have so far. [BHT]

FROST

Gracie Frost died at age five on January 5, 1885 — the same diphtheria winter that took the Dorr children. An unnamed Frost infant is buried beside her.

  • Gracie Frost, 25 Oct 1879 – 5 Jan 1885 — Daughter of George E. and L. J. Frost. Died at five in January 1885 during the same diphtheria winter as the Dorr children. [FG · stone]

GRACE

The Grace family plot holds Moses Grace, his wife Hannah Higgins Grace, and their young daughter Antoinette "Abby" Grace, who died at four. Hannah was born a Higgins; Moses lived to 82.

  • Moses Grace, 12 Mar 1806 – 15 Oct 1888 — Husband of Hannah L. Higgins Grace. Lived to eighty-two, dying in October 1888. [FG · stone]
  • Hannah L. (Higgins) Grace, 5 May 1814 – 14 Jan 1863 — Wife of Moses Grace, born a Higgins. Died at forty-eight in January 1863. [FG · stone]
  • Antoinette A. “Abby” Grace, 8 Aug 1854 – 20 Nov 1858 — Daughter of Moses and Hannah L. Grace. Died at four in November 1858. [FG · stone]

GRINDLE

Georgia E. Grindle was the second wife of George D. Grindle, married in September 1889. Their daughter Etta was born five months later, in February 1891. Georgia died that November at thirty-six, the same year her daughter was born. George remarried a third time in 1893, to Flora A. Higgins.

A short newspaper item mentioning George E. Grindle.
A passing newspaper mention of George Grindle. Georgia's husband shows up in occasional local items like this one — usually in the dry record of property dealings or town news, never with much narrative behind him. [BHT]
  • Georgia E Grindle, Feb 1855 – 7 Nov 1891 — Born Georgia Mills, also recorded as Georgie or Georgetta. Her first husband was Arthur W. Richardson, a dry goods peddler; they had two sons together, Murray and Elmer. After her divorce she married George D. Grindle in September 1889 and gave birth to their daughter Etta five months later — likely the reason for the divorce and remarriage. She died of unspecified causes in November 1891. [FG · stone · research · FamilySearch · BHT]

HAMOR

Captain James Hamor was born in Bar Harbor in 1794, the son of David and Experience (Thompson) Hamor. The land where the Bar Harbor Congregational Church now stands was once his; he donated it to the town for a school. He married Clarissa "Clara" Rodick in 1822 and served as the village postmaster through the 1850s and 1860s. His epitaph reads: He'll ride no more the billows / Nor o'er the rolling wave / He has performed life's final voyage / And anchored in the grave.

A short paragraph about Capt. James Hamor and David Rodick bringing a Free Baptist minister to Bar Harbor in 1845.
Capt. James Hamor's 1845 revival. The paragraph records that Hamor and David Rodick secured the services of Rev. Mr. Fletcher, a Free Baptist minister, who held meetings in the schoolhouse for three weeks — a religious reformation that produced about a dozen converts. [research]
  • Capt James Hamor, 21 Oct 1794 – 17 Dec 1873 — Born in Bar Harbor in 1794, son of David and Experience Thompson Hamor. Donated the land where the Bar Harbor Congregational Church now stands to be used as a school. Served as village postmaster in the 1850s and 1860s. In 1845 he and David Rodick brought a Free Baptist minister, Rev. Fletcher, to the village to hold meetings in the schoolhouse — a three-week revival that ended with about a dozen converts baptized into the church. Died at seventy-nine in December 1873. [FG · stone · research · BHT]
  • Clara B. (Rodick) Hamor, 1804 – 12 Jun 1888 — Born Clarissa Rodick; married James Hamor in 1822. Outlived her husband by fifteen years, dying in June 1888 at eighty-four. [FG · stone · research]

HAVENS

Christopher Havens (1798–1881) and his wife Mary (Higgins) Havens (1791–1877) raised at least four children, all of whom are buried with them here. Mary was a Higgins by birth, which connects this family to the larger Higgins line that founded Bar Harbor.

  • Mary (Higgins) Havens, 14 Apr 1791 – 23 Oct 1877 — Wife of Christopher Havens, born a Higgins in 1791 — a sister or aunt to Capt. Israel Higgins's line, which makes her an aunt of Capt. Stephen Higgins (the one who died on the mountain). Lived to eighty-five, dying in October 1877. [FG · stone · memoir]
  • Christopher Havens, 1798 – 7 Apr 1881 — Husband of Mary Higgins Havens. A reminiscence of mid-19th-century Bar Harbor describes the Havens family living in one of the low farm houses near what is now the junction of Mount Desert, Eden, and Kebo streets. Lived to eighty-three, dying in April 1881. [FG · stone · memoir]
  • Israel Havens, 20 Jan 1827 – 29 Jan 1849 — Son of Christopher and Mary. Died at twenty-two in January 1849. [FG · stone]
  • Julia E. Havens, d. 1 Jun 1863 — Daughter of Christopher and Mary. Died at eighteen in June 1863. [FG · stone]
  • Mercy Havens, d. 8 Jun 1875 — Daughter of Christopher and Mary. Died in June 1875. [FG · stone]
  • Sally S. Havens, d. 17 Feb 1840 — Daughter of Christopher and Mary. Died young in February 1840. [FG · stone]

HIGGINS — see the Higgins family bio

Beyond the eleven members of Capt. Israel Higgins's direct line covered in the main Higgins bio, this cemetery holds at least three dozen other Higginses — cousins, in-laws, infants, and members of branches of the family that fanned out across Eden in the 19th century. The notes below are what's known about each.

  • Mercy C (Stanwood) Higgins, 3 Jun 1803 – 5 Feb 1887 — Wife of Oliver Higgins 3rd, born a Stanwood (1803). Died at eighty-three in February 1887. [FG · stone]
  • Daniel Rodick Higgins, 24 Jan 1816 – 11 Nov 1889 — Husband of Hannah Higgins. Lived to seventy-three, dying in November 1889. [FG · stone]
  • Hannah (Higgins) Higgins, 19 Apr 1817 – 27 Jan 1901 — Wife of Daniel Higgins. Lived to eighty-three, dying in January 1901. [FG · stone]
  • Albert F Higgins, 1822 – 15 Mar 1898 — Died at seventy-five in March 1898. He was one of the local businessmen — alongside several Rodicks, the Conners family, and other Higgins relatives — who organized the response to Bar Harbor's 1873 typhoid outbreak, pushing the town to replace its open sewers with cesspools and pipe in clean water from Eagle Lake. [FG · stone · memoir]
  • George Purkett Higgins, 1 Sep 1826 – 7 Apr 1849 — Husband of Eudora Higgins. Died at twenty-two in April 1849. [FG · stone]
  • Humphrey S. Higgins, 8 Jun 1837 – unknown — Born June 8, 1837. Listed on his gravestone as a member of Company H, 4th Maine Infantry Regiment — a unit organized in Rockland in May 1861 and present at most of the major Eastern Theater battles, including Bull Run, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor. Death date is missing from the stone. [FG · stone · Wikipedia (4 ME)]
  • Leander A. Higgins, May 1839 – 2 Sep 1873 — Husband of Mary Higgins, father of Eddie M. and Addie Florence. Died at thirty-four in September 1873. [FG · stone]
  • Annette C (Allen) Higgins, 31 May 1848 – 21 Mar 1915 — Lived 1848 to 1915. [FG · stone]
  • Eddie M. Higgins, 5 Oct 1868 – 27 Aug 1873 — Son of Leander A. and Mary Higgins. Died at four in August 1873. [FG · stone]
  • Addie Florence Higgins, 10 Nov 1870 – 24 May 1871 — Daughter of Leander A. and Mary Higgins. Died at six months in May 1871. [FG · stone]
  • Addie Higgins, d. 24 Oct 1865 — Daughter of Charles and Almira H. Higgins. Died at eighteen months in October 1865. [FG · stone]
  • Albertena Higgins, d. 12 Jan 1849 — Daughter of George P. and Eudora Higgins. Died at eleven months in January 1849. [FG · stone]
  • Angelia S. Higgins, d. 7 Jan 1849 — Wife of Gilbert F. Higgins. Died at nineteen in January 1849. [FG · stone]
  • Asa Higgins, d. 9 Sep 1877 — Husband of Mercy S. Higgins. Died at seventy-three in September 1877. [FG · stone]
  • Emily L. Higgins, d. 6 Sep 1862 — Daughter of Cyrenius and Emily Higgins. Died at twenty-one in September 1862. [FG · stone]
  • Etta J. Higgins, d. 19 Feb 1864 — Daughter of William H. and Mary Higgins. Died at five in February 1864. [FG · stone]
  • Florence A. Higgins, d. 29 Aug 1873 — Wife of Edwin H. Higgins. Died at thirty-one in August 1873. [FG · stone]
  • Laura Higgins, d. 14 Dec 1859 — Died at fourteen in December 1859. [FG · stone]
  • Mamie Higgins, d. Birth and death dates unknown. — Sister of Andy Higgins. Dates unknown. [FG · stone]
  • Mercy S. Higgins, d. 9 Dec 1862 — Wife of Asa Higgins. Died at sixty-five in December 1862. [FG · stone]

HOTCHKISS

Adaline Higgins Hotchkiss died at 34 in 1845, the wife of John A. Hotchkiss. She's the only Hotchkiss buried in this cemetery.

JACKSON

Ruby Pineo Jackson lived a long life — 1858 to 1944. She was born a Pineo; her stone is in the Pineo family plot.

  • Ruby (Pineo) Jackson, 23 Mar 1858 – 2 May 1944 — Born a Pineo in 1858; lived until 1944. Buried in the Pineo family plot. [FG · stone]

KANE

Sean Philip Kane died in October 1979. He's buried near Virginia Louise (Shaw) Kane, who lived from 1930 to 2002 and connects the Kane plot to the Shaw family.

LELAND

Captain Enoch H. Leland (1820–1877) and his wife Irene (1822–1902) raised at least two children buried here: little Ansel, who died at five, and Ellen S., who died at twenty-two. Adaline H. (Higgins) Leland, the wife of Captain Oren H. Leland and mother of Flora A. Higgins (later Grindle), is also buried here — she died at twenty-six in 1858 with no cause listed on her death certificate.

A newspaper article fragment referring to a Captain Leland of Bar Harbor.
A “Capt. Leland” in the Bar Harbor papers. The clipping — one of several that mention the Lelands across the second half of the nineteenth century — refers to a Leland sea captain alongside the Higgins, Grindle, Hamor, and Jordan families he sailed and worked beside. [research]
  • Enoch Higgins Leland, 28 Jun 1818 – 25 Feb 1877 — Husband of Irene Leland, father of Ansel and Ellen. Lived to fifty-six, dying in February 1877. [FG · stone]
  • Mrs Irene (Rodick) Leland, 26 Dec 1821 – 20 Mar 1902 — Wife of Enoch H. Leland. Outlived her husband by twenty-five years, dying in March 1902 at eighty. [FG · stone]
  • Adaline H. (Higgins) Leland, 29 Aug 1831 – 6 Feb 1858 — Wife of Captain Oren H. Leland. Mother of Flora A. Higgins, who would later marry George D. Grindle in 1893 — connecting this family to the Grindle plot. Died at twenty-six in February 1858; no cause listed on her death certificate. [FG · stone · research]
  • Ansel B Leland, 11 Jul 1846 – 22 May 1852 — Son of Enoch H. and Irene Leland. Died at five years and ten months in May 1852. [FG · stone]
  • Ellen S. Leland, 26 Aug 1859 – 25 Aug 1882 — Daughter of Enoch H. and Irene Leland. Died in her thirties in August 1882. [FG · stone]

LYNCH

  • Daniel Lynch, d. 25 Jan 1874 — Died at seventy-four in January 1874. Nothing further known. [FG · stone]

MANCHESTER

Sarah B. Manchester (1833–1914) was the wife of Royal Young, who is also buried here.

  • Sarah B. Manchester, 1833 – 1914 — Wife of Royal Young. Lived 1833 to 1914. [FG · stone]

MCFARLAND

  • Rodney McFarland, 6 Jan 1824 – 17 Jan 1905 — Husband of Margaret Kane McFarland. Lived 1824 to 1905. [FG · stone]
  • Margaret (Kane) McFarland, 20 Oct 1825 – 12 Apr 1902 — Wife of Rodney McFarland. [FG · stone]

MOORE

PARSONS

Harland C. "Harley" Parsons was the son of L. E. Parsons and Clara H. Parsons. He died at three and a half in October 1884.

  • Harland C. “Harley” Parsons, 29 Apr 1881 – 12 Oct 1884 — Son of L. E. and Clara H. Parsons. Died at three and a half in October 1884. [FG · stone]

PINEO

Two modern Pineos buried here — Mary Ellen Pineo (1937–2017) and Norman Pineo (1928–2023). Earlier Pineos in this plot include Charles Byron Pineo and Flora (Rodick) Pineo, who married into the Rodick family of Bar Hill.

  • Norman Pineo, 1928 – 2023 — Buried in the Pineo family plot. [FG]
  • Mary Ellen Pineo, 1937 – 2017 — Buried in the Pineo family plot. [FG]

PRAY

Ella A. Pray was the daughter of E. H. and Nellie F. Pray. She died at seventeen months in October 1882.

  • Ella A. Pray, d. 18 Oct 1882 — Daughter of E. H. and Nellie F. Pray. Died at seventeen months in October 1882. [FG · stone]

RICHARDS

Six Richardses are buried here, spanning roughly 1830 to 1900. William Richards (1832–1893) was a cod fisherman who lived next door to the Wasgatts and later married Eunice (Rodick) Wasgatt after her first husband Benjamin Wasgatt died in the Civil War.

  • Josiah B. Richards, 7 Nov 1804 – 1 Sep 1867 — Died at sixty-two on an illegible date. [FG · stone]
  • Cassie May Richards, d. Birth and death dates unknown. — Daughter of unknown Richards parents. Died at eight months on a date partly illegible on the stone — sometime in February of the 1880s. [FG · stone]
  • Henrietta G Richards, d. 11 Jun 1880 — Wife of James H. Richards. Died at thirty-seven in June 1880. [FG · stone]

RICHARDSON

Sarah Rebecca Richardson died in December 1908 at seventy-two and is buried on the Amos and Bethiah Richardson lot — the family of Amanda M. (Richardson) Ash, the matriarch of the Ash family covered elsewhere on this site.

  • Sarah Rebecca Richardson, d. 5 Dec 1908 — Buried with Amos and Bethiah Richardson, the parents of Amanda M. (Richardson) Ash. Died in December 1908 at seventy-two. [FG · stone]

ROBERTS — see the Roberts family bio

  • George Roberts, 1800 – 10 Oct 1862 — Husband of Hannah Roberts. Died at sixty-two in October 1862. No known relation to the Tobias Roberts hotel family covered in the main Roberts bio. [FG · stone]
  • Hannah (Haynes) Roberts, 1823 – 13 Apr 1861 — Wife of George Roberts. Died at thirty-seven in April 1861. [FG · stone]
  • Cora Livingston (Frost) Roberts, 3 Aug 1896 – Sep 1979 — Born a Frost in 1896. [FG · stone]

SALISBURY

Reuben Salisbury and Almira M. Salisbury raised three children here before Almira's death in 1866 at fifty-nine. Their son Thomas R. died in infancy. Captain Bethuel Salsbury (no relation to the spelling Salisbury, but next door in the plot) was a sea captain who died at sixty-five in 1872.

  • Olevia A. Salisbury, May 1846 – 1 Dec 1865 — Daughter of Captain Bethuel and Elizabeth Salsbury. Died at nineteen in December 1865. [FG · stone]
  • Thomas R. Salisbury, d. 5 Jan 1836 — Son of Reuben Salisbury and Almira M. Salisbury. Died very young in January 1836. [FG · stone]
  • Almira M. Salisbury, d. 13 Feb 1866 — Wife of Reuben Salisbury. Died at fifty-nine in February 1866. [FG · stone]
  • Ellen R Salisbury, d. 26 Jan 1856 — Wife of Warren H. Salisbury. Died at twenty in January 1856. [FG · stone]

SALSBURY

  • Capt Bethuel Salsbury, 1 Dec 1806 – 4 Jul 1872 — Sea captain. Died at sixty-five in July 1872. Note the different spelling — Salsbury vs. Salisbury — used by this branch of the family. [FG · stone]

SHAW

Judge Norman Shaw (1892–1973) and his wife Erma V. (Stafford) Shaw (1905–1982) are buried alongside their daughter Virginia (1930–2002, later Virginia Kane) and other Shaw descendants.

SMITH

Florinda Smith died at thirty in December 1874. A week earlier, her seven-year-old son Edwin F. had died — likely the same illness that took her.

  • Edwin F Smith, 1867 – 13 Dec 1874 — Son of Edwin F. and Florinda Smith. Died at seven on December 13, 1874 — a week before his mother. [FG · stone]
  • Florinda Smith, d. 20 Dec 1874 — Wife of Edwin F. Smith. Died at thirty on December 20, 1874, a week after her son. [FG · stone]

SOPER

Two Soper children of George E. and Nellie D. Soper are buried here: Laura E., who died in her sixties, and Ralph E., who died at eight in December 1891.

  • Ralph E. Soper, 24 Dec 1883 – 30 Dec 1891 — Son of George E. and Nellie D. Soper. Died at eight in December 1891. [FG · stone]
  • Laura E. Soper, d. Birth and death dates unknown. — Daughter of George E. and Nellie D. Soper. Died in her sixties on a date partly illegible on the stone. [FG · stone]

STANWOOD

Humphrey Bradstreet Stanwood (1768–1847) and his wife Hannah Higgins Stanwood (1777–1851) lie together. Hannah was a Higgins by birth, another link to the Higgins line that founded the town.

  • Humphrey Bradstreet Stanwood, 20 Jan 1768 – 22 Oct 1847 — Husband of Hannah Higgins Stanwood. Lived to eighty, dying in October 1847. The broader Stanwood line was tightly linked to the Rodicks: a Sarah Stanwood (1774–1853) of Humphrey's generation married David Rodick, making her the matriarch of the Rodick line covered elsewhere on this site. [FG · stone · research]
  • Hannah (Higgins) Stanwood, 23 Dec 1777 – 23 Apr 1851 — Wife of Humphrey Stanwood, born a Higgins in 1777. Died at seventy-three in April 1851. [FG · stone · research]

STAPLES

Isaac Chase Staples died in the Civil War in 1864. His wife Martha Amelia (Richards) Staples had died two years earlier, at twenty-four, in August 1862.

  • Isaac Chase Staples, 10 Aug 1837 – 19 May 1864 — Husband of Martha A. Richards Staples. Died in the Civil War. [FG · stone · research]
  • Martha Amelia (Richards) Staples, 30 Mar 1838 – 9 Aug 1862 — Wife of Isaac Chase Staples. Died at twenty-four in August 1862. [FG · stone]

STOVER

The Stovers are a relatively recent addition — Crawford A. Stover (1828–1911), his wife Mary Ann (Dawes) Stover, and Angelia J. (McFarland) Stover, who connects this plot to the McFarlands.

  • Crawford A. Stover, Mar 1828 – 5 Aug 1911 — Husband of Mary Ann (Dawes) Stover. Lived from March 1828 to August 1911. [FG · stone]
  • Mary Ann (Dawes) Stover, 1836 – unknown — Wife of Crawford A. Stover. [FG · stone]
  • Angelia J. (McFarland) Stover, 7 Mar 1849 – 18 Jul 1910 — A McFarland by birth, married into the Stover line. Lived 1849 to 1910. [FG · stone]

SUMINSBEY

  • Sarah Suminsbey, Oct 1830 – 10 Mar 1852 — First wife of Jacob S. Suminsby. Died at twenty-one in March 1852. [FG · stone]

SUMINSBY

The Suminsby family rented rowboats and canoes to early Bar Harbor tourists in the 1870s, alongside the Robertses and the Connorses. Jacob S. Suminsby died on Independence Day, 1892, at seventy-five — two months after his second wife Experience. His first wife Sarah, and a Deborah Suminsby (relation unclear), are also buried here. The spelling appears in the cemetery records as both Suminsby and Suminsbey.

Newspaper clipping describing the Suminsby home in old Bar Harbor, mentioning Jacob and Experience Suminsby and the saw mill at Uncle Jake's Creek.
The Suminsby home, in a Bar Harbor reminiscence. A “walking-tour” memoir of the village describes Jacob and his “excellent companion ‘Aunt Spee’ (Experience),” the saw mill he built at “Uncle Jake’s Creek” (later the village swimming pool, “Jacob’s Well”), and the Higgins household next door. [memoir]
  • Deborah Suminsby, d. 17 Mar 1817 — Died at eighteen in March of the 1810s. Relation to Jacob and Sarah unclear. [FG · stone]
  • Experience L. Suminsby, d. 19 Jan 1892 — Jacob's second wife, known around Bar Harbor as "Aunt Spee." Died at seventy-three in January 1892, six months before her husband. A neighborly memoir of old Bar Harbor describes their cottage as small and comfortable. [FG · stone · memoir]
  • Jacob S. Suminsby, d. 4 Jul 1892 — Husband of Sarah and (later) Experience. Built a small saw mill at what was locally called "Uncle Jake's Creek" — the same site that later became the village swimming pool, with the area still known as "Jacob's Well." Died on July 4, 1892 at seventy-five. [FG · stone · memoir]

TABBUT

Cora A. (Dorr) Tabbut was the eldest daughter of Thomas and Olive Dorr, born in Columbia Falls in 1861. She married Milton Hilman Tabbutt in 1880 at her hometown, and they had three children. She died at twenty-five in June 1886 — a year after her mother and two of her sisters — and was buried here alongside them.

  • Cora A. (Dorr) Tabbut, 13 Apr 1861 – 25 Jun 1886 — Eldest daughter of Thomas and Olive Dorr; born in Columbia Falls in April 1861. Married Milton Hilman Tabbutt on Christmas Day, 1880, in her hometown. Had three children. Died at twenty-five in June 1886, a year after her mother and two of her sisters. [FG · stone · research]

WALLS

Ephraim H. Walls died at thirty in January 1861, just months into the Civil War. His daughter Vesta Ella, born during her father's final summer, died at three in February 1863. Both lie here; their mother Clara A. Walls's stone is not present.

  • Ephraim H Walls, 25 Sep 1830 – 3 Jan 1861 — Husband of Clara A. Walls. Died at thirty in January 1861. [FG · stone]
  • Vesta Ella Walls, 3 Aug 1859 – 16 Feb 1863 — Daughter of Ephraim H. and Clara A. Walls. Born during her father's final summer; died at three in February 1863. [FG · stone]

WOODBERRY

John Woodberry died at eighty-one in October 1875. His is the only Woodberry stone in this cemetery.

Newspaper clipping describing the Woodberry home in old Bar Harbor, where the Beau Desert estate later stood.
John Woodberry, in a Bar Harbor reminiscence. The same village memoir places the Woodberry home up the road from Capt. Asa Higgins's place and notes that Mr. Woodbury, though “a cripple,” built boats and went fishing — his acreage later absorbed into the Beau Desert estate. [memoir]
  • John Woodberry, 1794 – 1 Oct 1875 — A contemporary memoir of mid-19th-century Bar Harbor describes John and his wife as an elderly couple living up the road from the Asa Higgins place. He was disabled but worked as a boat-builder and went fishing; his large acreage later became much of the Beau Desert estate. Died at eighty-one in October 1875. [FG · stone · memoir]

YOUNG

Joseph Young and his wife Hannah are the parents of three Young children buried here: Ezra H., who died in Washington, D.C. in January 1863 as a soldier in the 26th Maine Regiment; George Dallas, who died at twenty-seven in 1872; and Oliver H., who died at seventeen in 1867. Royal Young (1843–1913) was the husband of Sarah B. Manchester, also buried here. The other Young burials are the children of Elisha and Priscilla Young — Etta Maria and Winnie J., both of whom died very young.

A handwritten copy of an old death record for Etta Young of Eden, Maine.
Etta Maria Young's death record. The copy of an old record gives the place of death as Eden, names her parents, and lists her age in months and days — she did not live to two. [HC vitals]
  • Charlotte S. (Gilley) Young, 28 Nov 1839 – 23 Jan 1863 — Wife of Willard W. Young. Died at twenty-three in January 1863. [FG · stone]
  • Priscilla Woodward (Kelley) Young, 1840 – 23 Dec 1886 — Wife of Elisha Young; mother of Etta Maria and Winnie J. Died at forty-six in December 1886. [FG · stone]
  • Pvt Ezra H. Young, Dec 1841 – 13 Jan 1863 — Son of Joseph and Hannah Young. Died on January 13, 1863, in Washington, D.C., as a soldier in the 26th Maine Regiment. He was twenty-one. [FG · stone · Wikipedia (26 ME)]
  • Royal Young, 1843 – 1913 — Husband of Sarah B. Manchester. Lived 1843 to 1913. [FG · stone]
  • George Dallas Young, May 1845 – 14 Nov 1872 — Son of Joseph and Hannah Young. Died at twenty-seven in November 1872. [FG · stone]
  • Etta Maria Young, 18 Dec 1860 – 31 Jan 1863 — Daughter of Elisha and Priscilla Young. Died at two in February 1865. [FG · stone · HC vitals]
  • Winnie J. Young, 24 Oct 1865 – Aug 1873 — Daughter of Elisha and Priscilla Young. Died at six in August 1873. [FG · stone]

Cross-references

A few stones in the cemetery's records have spellings that don't match the names we use on the family bios. They're the same people.

Unmarked & unknown

Stones in the cemetery whose inscriptions are partly or wholly illegible, or that list only “Infant” or “Unknown.”

  • Alfred S. Unknown, 9 Apr 1854 – 28 Apr 1863
  • Andy Unknown, d. Birth and death dates unknown.
  • Baby Unknown, d. Birth and death dates unknown.
  • Baby Young, d. Birth and death dates unknown.
  • Daughter Rodick, d. 27 Nov 1861
  • Infant Ash, 23 Dec 1891 – 23 Dec 1891
  • Infant Daughter Cunningham, d. 25 Dec 1882
  • Infant Daughter Frost, d. Birth and death dates unknown.
  • Infant Daughter Wasgatt, 28 Dec 1889 – 1889
  • Jonny F. Unknown, 1863 – Feb 1864
  • Katie Unknown, d. 1850
  • Lewis A. Unknown, d. 25 May 1867
  • Mamie Unknown, d. Birth and death dates unknown.
  • Unknown Unknown, d. 16 Mar