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August, 1998
Lost Fort Fairfield Cemetery Found
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LOST FORT FAIRFIELD CEMETARY FOUND
Fort Fairfield Review, Fort Fairfield, Maine
Wednesday June 10, 1998
Jackie Goodine of Presque Isle wanted to do something for her 87-year-old grandmother, Eleanor (Farley) Dyer Churchill Greenier. Although Mrs. Greenier is now suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a resident at Limestone Manor, Goodine remembered that she used to talk about an old cemetary on the South Caribou Road. Her two baby brothers had been buried there; one on the day he was born, the other when he was only a child. neither had a headstone, but Mrs. Greenier remembered there had been a cemetary not far from a gravel pit.
Goodine searched records for four years, roaming all over Fort Fairfield looking for this small cemetery. Finally, a friend told her to pray for guidance and the ver next day she met Phil LeVasseur, whose grave pit is on the South Caribou Road. he knew immediately what she was looking for, and gave her permission to cross his land, taking her in back of the gravel pit to a little-used field road. Goodine walked across a rock pile, and stook looking toward a wooded area. "If there had been leaves on the bushes, I never would have seen it!" she exclaimed later, "But there it was, I saw a stone!" She says she screamed and took off running toward the visible headstone.
The stone she spotted was a massive pink granite headstone for members of the LOVELY family -- Levi Lovely, who died in 1923; his wife Myrtle, who was buried in 1900; and their daughter Gretchen, also buried in 1900, three months before her mother. Right nearby is a headstone for the Albert Lovely family: Albert, 1846-1916; Mary, 1849-1890; and son Wilbert, 1871-1890. Two other stones mark the graves of the RICHARDS and GIGGEY families: Thomas Richards, 1850-1934 and his wife Elizabeth, 1863-1933; and George Giggey, died in 1905 and his wife Mary, who died in 1896. The oldest headstone belongs to the BISHOPS: Daniel Bishop, who lived from 1802-1881 and his wife Asenith, born in 1818 and died in 1866.
Goodine is very interested in hearing from anyone who might have more information about the cemetary. Jackie wanted to say she was "overwhelmed with the support I've received from Fort Fairfield, from Phil LeVasseur to Ken Clark at the Plant Shack, and Tony Levesque, and everyone."
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If anyone has any information, please contact the Fort Fairfield Review: ffreview@ainop.com
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