Hill Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine)

Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine. Located in today's Katherine Tinker Preserve,[1] it is now closed to burials.[2]

Hill Cemetery
Details
Established1831 (1831)
Location
CountryUnited States
Coordinates43.7649°N 70.1416°W / 43.7649; -70.1416
TypePrivate
Find a GraveHill Cemetery

The cemetery is so named because it contains only members of the Hill family, with dates of death ranging from 1831 to 1899.[3] It includes burials of Revolutionary War veterans.[4]

References

  1. 'Every weekend if the weather cooperates'Sun Journal, October 1, 2017
  2. Cemeteries in Yarmouth – Town of Yarmouth website
  3. Cousins and Littlejohn's Islands, 1645–1893, Katherine Prescott Kaster (1942)
  4. Revolutionary War Graves Register, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993) ISBN 9780960718825
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