PoliticalGraveyard.com

Belknap County
New Hampshire

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Belknap County

Index to Locations Alton Riverside Cemetery Gilmanton Smith Meeting House Cemetery Laconia Sacred Heart Cemetery Laconia Union Cemetery Lakeport, Laconia Bayside Cemetery Riverside Cemetery Alton, Belknap County, New Hampshire Politicians buried here:   Amos L. Rollins (1826-1900) — of Alton, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Alton, Belknap County, N.H., December 11, 1826. Member of New Hampshire state senate 4th District, 1895-96. Died, of heart failure, in Alton, Belknap County, N.H., February 22, 1900 (age 73 years, 73 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Ichabod Rollins and Sally (Walker) Rollins; married to Sarah E. Kimball and Pamelia A. Pendergast.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Ellsworth Hyde Rollins (1861-1933) — of Alton, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Alton, Belknap County, N.H., October 26, 1861. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1900, 1932. Died in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., July 31, 1933 (age 71 years, 278 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery. Smith Meeting House Cemetery Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire Founded 1773 See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904) — of Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H., February 8, 1841. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of New Hampshire state senate 6th District, 1878-79; candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, 1886. Died in Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H., February 15, 1904 (age 63 years, 7 days). Interment at Smith Meeting House Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868) and Polly (Noyes) Cogswell; married, October 8, 1873, to Florence Mooers; married, October 6, 1902, to Caroline M. Jones; third cousin once removed of John Adams; fourth cousin of John Quincy Adams; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan Mason, George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams and Joshua Perkins.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Otis family of Connecticut; Adams-Baldwin family of Boston, Massachusetts; Fairbanks-Adams family; Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Ames family of North Easton, Massachusetts; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Adams-Rusling family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Thomas Cogswell (1799-1868) — of Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Atkinson, Rockingham County, N.H., December 7, 1799. Member of New Hampshire Governor's Council, 1856-57. Died in Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H., August 8, 1868 (age 68 years, 245 days). Interment at Smith Meeting House Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Cogswell and Judith (Badger) Cogswell; married to Polly Noyes; father of Thomas Cogswell (1841-1904); third cousin of John Adams; third cousin once removed of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); third cousin twice removed of George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams and Joshua Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of John Quincy Adams (1833-1894), Brooks Adams and Irving Hall Chase; fourth cousin of Jonathan Mason.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine; Crowninshield-Adams family of Savannah, Georgia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Sacred Heart Cemetery Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire Politicians buried here:   Joseph Oliva Huot (1917-1983) — also known as J. Oliva Huot — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., August 11, 1917. Democrat. Mayor of Laconia, N.H., 1959-63; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1965-67; defeated, 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1972. Catholic. Member, Kiwanis; Knights of Columbus; Elks; Moose. Died in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., August 5, 1983 (age 65 years, 359 days). Interment at Sacred Heart Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Union Cemetery Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire Politicians buried here:   Charles Albert Busiel (1842-1901) — also known as Charles A. Busiel — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Meredith, Belknap County, N.H., November 24, 1842. Manufacturer; president, Laconia National Bank and City Savings Bank; president, Lake Shore Railroad; director, Concord & Montreal Railroad; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1878-79; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1880; mayor of Laconia, N.H., 1893-95; Governor of New Hampshire, 1895-97. Died, about two weeks after the drowning of his six-year-old grandson and namesake, of heart disease, August 29, 1901 (age 58 years, 278 days). Entombed in mausoleum at Union Cemetery.   Relatives: Married 1864 to Eunice Elizabeth Preston.   See also National Governors Association biography   Fletcher Hale (1883-1931) — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, January 22, 1883. Republican. Lawyer; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1918; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1925-31; died in office 1931. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Elks; Odd Fellows; American Bar Association. Died in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., October 22, 1931 (age 48 years, 273 days). Interment at Union Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Frederick Fletcher Hale and Adelaide L. (MacLellan) Hale; married, March 29, 1913, to Alice N. Armstrong.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Ellery Albee Hibbard (1826-1903) — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Born in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vt., July 31, 1826. Democrat. Lawyer; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Hampshire, 1864; member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1865-66; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1871-73; justice of New Hampshire state supreme court, 1873-74; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1889. Died July 24, 1903 (age 76 years, 358 days). Interment at Union Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Silas Hibbard and Olive (Albee) Hibbard; married, December 5, 1853, to Mary H. Bell; cousin *** of Harry Hibbard.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   John Adams Harper (1779-1816) — of New Hampshire. Born in Derryfield (now Manchester), Hillsborough County, N.H., November 2, 1779. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1809; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1811-13. Died June 18, 1816 (age 36 years, 229 days). Interment at Union Cemetery.   Presumably named for: John Adams   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Walter Elisha Kenniston Dunlap (d. 1948) — also known as Walter E. Dunlap — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H. Mayor of Laconia, N.H., 1935-36. Died April 28, 1948. Interment at Union Cemetery.   Arthur H. Lord (1871-1956) — of Laconia, Belknap County, N.H.; Gilford, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Somersworth, Strafford County, N.H., August 22, 1871. Republican. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives from Gilford; elected 1938. Died in Gilford, Belknap County, N.H., September 14, 1956 (age 85 years, 23 days). Interment at Union Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of James W. Lord and Mary (Wilkinson) Lord; married 1898 to Helena Amanda Brownlow; married, May 16, 1923, to Annie May Folsom; third cousin twice removed of Isaac Libbey and Harrison Libbey; fourth cousin once removed of Llewellyn Libby.   Political families: Libby-Felt family of Maine; Saltonstall-Weeks family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Bayside Cemetery Lakeport, Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire Politicians buried here:   Martin Alonzo Haynes (1842-1919) — also known as Martin A. Haynes — of Gilford, Belknap County, N.H. Born in Springfield, Sullivan County, N.H., July 30, 1842. Republican. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1872; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Hampshire, 1872; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire 1st District, 1883-87. Died November 28, 1919 (age 77 years, 121 days). Interment at Bayside Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/BE-buried.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.