Wight cemetery|
Wight cemetery |
| Wight cemetery is located on Maine highway 26, about a mile from Grafton Notch State Park as you are heading toward New Hampshire. It is on the left side of the highway. According to "Newry Profiles" by Paula Wight, it was known as Head O Tide cemetery when it was established. A committee to lay out, contract for and fence the cemetery on the Bear River was named in 1814. (Another cemetery for Sunday River established Powers Cemetery in that part of Newry.) The committee members for Bear River were James Eames, Lt. Asa Foster and Joseph Jackson, according to Wight. The Wight cemetery was finally established around 1854. Land for the cemetery was originally owned by nearby farmer Caleb Barker and he was the cemetery's first sexton. |
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