Page 2 (continued)... We came across a few fall wildflowers on our way to the next cemetery:

Ladies' Tresses Orchid   (Spiranthes sp.) If I saw this at home, I would say it was Spiranthes cernua.

White Turtlehead   (Chelone glabra) A little past its prime...

Chase Cemetery:

The cemetery is surrounded by an ornate iron fence. Unfortunately fallen trees have damaged several sections.

William and Susan Chase gravestone

There are four graves recorded here, all from the 1800s.

Ornate iron fence gate

Erastus H. Chase is buried here, but he died in 1886. I wonder if this decoration was originally attached to the fence or a gate; perhaps he had it constructed in 1872(?)

Section of the cemetery fence...

Bartlett Cemetery: Kevin was familiar with three of these cemeteries, but I had found a GPS point online for another (fourth) graveyard.   Unfortunately, the coordinates were not accurate, although they did get us in the ballpark.

The description of the cemetery that I had read described a split boulder near the graves. We came across this split rock at a high flat spot, which looked like a good graveyard location, but only found some rock piles nearby.

Another nearby split rock We thought surely this must be the place, but it also was not to be.

We widened our search, and finally Glenn found the spot! The graves are on the other side of these boulders.

Samuel Bartlett US Civil War veteran

Bartlett enlisted 9 Dec 1861 and joined Company H, New Hampshire 8th Infantry Regiment.   Mustered out on 28 Oct 1865 at Vicksburg, MS.

The gravestone says "Husband" but there is no sign of his wife here.

Daniel W. Bartlett was Samuel's father This broken gravestone is for Daniel and his wife Nancy. Nancy's info is on the lower section, which this upper part is leaning on.

Another Red Eft, this one considerably larger than the small ones we saw earlier.

Goodrich Cemetery:

There are eight marked gravestones at this graveyard.

All of the graves are Goodriches...

Sally Goodrich lived to be over 101 years old! She outlived her husband and six children.

Sally's husband Barnard died in 1834, the same year as two of their children.

Samuel, one of their sons.

Several of the children died in the 1830s, probably due to smallpox epidemics.

Cellar Site 5: Probably the Goodrich home, being located by the cemetery.

One of the cellars at the Goodrich homestead

Glenn at the cellar

We followed a dry creek bed up to what looked like a small dam.

But it didn't really look like a dam from above...

Spring Peeper   (Pseudacris species)

Cellar Site 6: Another building from the Goodrich homestead.

Cellar site 6

This was probably the smallest foundation that we found.

One more view of our last find It began to rain as we finished up here... Back to Pawtuckaway Page 1

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