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Waldo County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Waldo County

Index to Locations Belfast Grove Cemetery Brooks Pilley Cemetery Monroe Monroe Village Cemetery Montville Mt. Repose Cemetery North Montville, Montville Halldale Cemetery South Montville, Montville City Cemetery Winterport Oak Hill Cemetery Grove Cemetery Belfast, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Hugh Johnston Anderson (1801-1881) — also known as Hugh J. Anderson — of Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, May 10, 1801. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Maine 1st District, 1837-41; Governor of Maine, 1844-47. Died in Portland, Multnomah County, Ore., May 31, 1881 (age 80 years, 21 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography   William George Crosby (1805-1881) — of Maine. Born September 10, 1805. Governor of Maine, 1853-55; defeated, 1850, 1852. Died March 21, 1881 (age 75 years, 192 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   See also National Governors Association biography   Seth Llewellyn Milliken (1831-1897) — also known as Seth L. Milliken — of Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Maine, 1831. Republican. Member of Maine state legislature, 1870; U.S. Representative from Maine, 1883-97 (at-large 1883-85, 3rd District 1885-97); died in office 1897. Died in 1897 (age about 66 years). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Jonathan Garland Dickerson (1811-1878) — also known as Jonathan G. Dickerson — of Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in New Chester (now Hill), Merrimack County, N.H., November 5, 1811. Lawyer; justice of Maine state supreme court, 1862-78; died in office 1878. Died in Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, September 1, 1878 (age 66 years, 300 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Jonathan Dickerson and Hannah (Garland) Dickerson; married to Ellen L. Getchell; married 1859 to Eliza A. Berry.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   John Wilson (1777-1848) — of Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, N.H., January 10, 1777. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-15, 1817-19 (at-large 1813-15, 4th District 1817-19). Died in Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, August 9, 1848 (age 71 years, 212 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Robert Wilson and Mary (Hodges) Wilson; married to Hannah Leach and Mary Frances Tinkham.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Nathan Read (1759-1849) — of Salem, Essex County, Mass.; Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Warren, Worcester County, Mass., July 2, 1759. School teacher; apothecary; iron foundry business; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1800-03; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1803. Died near Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, January 20, 1849 (age 89 years, 202 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Reuben Read and Tamsen (Meacham) Read; married to Elizabeth Jeffrey; great-grandfather of Charles Kirk Tilden; first cousin twice removed of John Hill Walbridge and Henry E. Walbridge; second cousin once removed of John Adams Dix; second cousin twice removed of Charles Otis Nason; third cousin of Jabez Upham and George Baxter Upham; third cousin once removed of Timothy Bigelow, Rufus Heaton, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, James Phineas Upham and John Ogden Bigelow; third cousin twice removed of Cheney Ames, Leonard Ames Jr., Edgar Weeks, John Wingate Weeks and Alexander Cook Thayer; third cousin thrice removed of William Greene Dows, Bernard Forrest Bemis, John A. Weeks and Charles Sinclair Weeks; fourth cousin of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy and John Prescott Bigelow; fourth cousin once removed of Gideon Hard, Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor and Alvarus Payson Adams.   Political family: Four Thousand Related Politicians..   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Nehemiah Abbott (1804-1877) — of Belfast, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Sidney, Kennebec County, Maine, March 29, 1804. Republican. Member of Maine state house of representatives, 1842-45; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maine, 1856; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1857-59; mayor of Belfast, Maine, 1865-66. Died in Belfast, Waldo County, Maine, July 26, 1877 (age 73 years, 119 days). Interment at Grove Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial Pilley Cemetery Brooks, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Woodbury Davis (1818-1871) — of Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Born in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine, July 25, 1818. Republican. Lawyer; Maine state treasurer, 1855; justice of Maine state supreme court, 1855-56, 1857-65; removed 1856; resigned 1865; postmaster at Portland, Maine, 1865-71. Died in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, August 13, 1871 (age 53 years, 19 days). Interment at Pilley Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Davis and Sarah (Mitchell) Davis; married to Caroline Eliza Thorndike.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Monroe Village Cemetery Monroe, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   George Thacher (1790-1857) — of Saco, York County, Maine; Monroe, Waldo County, Maine; Belfast, Waldo County, Maine; Westford, Middlesex County, Mass. Born in Biddeford, York County, Maine, September 7, 1790. Lawyer; U.S. Collector of Customs at Belfast, Maine, Maine, 1841-45. Died in Westford, Middlesex County, Mass., June 12, 1857 (age 66 years, 278 days). Originally entombed at Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Mass.; reinterment at Monroe Village Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of George Thacher (1754-1824) and Sarah (Savage) Thacher; married, January 20, 1818, to Lucy Bigelow; married, June 14, 1847, to Lucy Miranda Bancroft; first cousin once removed of Henry Charles Thacher; first cousin twice removed of Thomas Chandler Thacher; second cousin once removed of Robert Treat Paine; third cousin once removed of Eli Thacher Hoyt; third cousin thrice removed of Robert Treat Paine Jr.; fourth cousin once removed of Luther Waterman.   Political family: Thacher #1 family of Yarmouth, Massachusetts (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Mt. Repose Cemetery Montville, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Richard Small Ayer (1829-1896) — Born in Montville, Waldo County, Maine, October 9, 1829. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1867-68; U.S. Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1870-71; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1888. Died in Liberty, Waldo County, Maine, December 14, 1896 (age 67 years, 66 days). Interment at Mt. Repose Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Halldale Cemetery North Montville, Montville, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Benjamin White (1790-1860) — of Montville, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Goshen (now Vienna), Kennebec County, Maine, May 13, 1790. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; school teacher; farmer; sawmill business; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1829, 1841-42; U.S. Representative from Maine 5th District, 1843-45. Died in Montville, Waldo County, Maine, June 7, 1860 (age 70 years, 25 days). Interment at Halldale Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Sarah Foster.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial City Cemetery South Montville, Montville, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Ebenezer Knowlton (1815-1874) — of Montville, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Pittsfield, Merrimack County, N.H., December 6, 1815. Republican. Clergyman; member of Maine state house of representatives, 1844; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1855-57. Died September 10, 1874 (age 58 years, 278 days). Interment at City Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Oak Hill Cemetery Winterport, Waldo County, Maine Politicians buried here:   Fred Atwood (1838-1909) — of Winterport, Waldo County, Maine. Born in Frankfort (part now in Winterport), Waldo County, Maine, November 12, 1838. Republican. Farm implement dealer; insurance business; member of Maine state senate, 1875; Republican Presidential Elector for Maine, 1897. Died January 6, 1909 (age 70 years, 55 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Atwood and Mehitable (Stubbs) Atwood; married, November 23, 1860, to Susan J. Coffren.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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