MAPLEWOOD CEMETERY
BARRE TOWN, VERMONT

Introduction

Maplewood Cemetery is located in Barre Town, Vermont, at the northwest corner of the intersection of Town Highway #43 (Farwell Street) and Town Highway #9 (Nichols Road). The earliest burial date appearing on gravestones are in the very early 1800's, and burials as recently as the current year (2000) are represented. The cemetery is still active and is well maintained. Many of the old marble gravestones, however, are badly worn and difficult to read.

A map obtained from the Barre Town Cemetery Commission shows lot owners for many of the cemetery lots. However, the map is apparently not to scale, incomplete, and made determining to which lot broken, uninscribed or unreadable gravestones belonged was a challenge.

This cemetery has been transcribed in three sections, as indicated on the cemetery layout map. (Click here to view a rough map of the cemetery. Distances were determined by pacing; therefore, the dimensions shown are approximate.) Section I lies to the west of a north-south driveway (with an entrance on Nichols Road) running through the cemetery, and its straight-line extension. Section II lies east of that driveway and south of the east-west driveway (with an entrance on Farwell Street). Section III includes all gravesites north of the east-west driveway, and easterly of the extension of the north-south driveway.

Inscriptions in Sections I and II are recorded in rows, (starting from the western-most row), and are from the south to the north in each row. In these sections, stones generally face east or west, and the rows run north-south. In Section III, inscriptions are recorded in rows, (starting nearest the east-west driveway), and are from the west to the east in each row. In this section, stones generally face southerly, and rows run east-west.

 How to use the index.

To the extent possible, inscriptions are copied exactly as they appear on the stones. However, epitaphs were not transcribed. Where portions of the inscription were uncertain, they are included in brackets, e.g., 1[827]. Portions unreadable or missing are indicated by dashes in brackets, e.g., son of [---]. On a few of the stones, a birthdate was given, but no death date has been inscribed; in those cases, the missing date is indicated by underline, e.g., 1823-____.

 Engraved devices appear on many stones, indicating membership in an organization or society. Although some are self-explanatory, the following is a list of abbreviations or other text encountered, and some comments about each.

It is to be noted that on some stones, the relationships between persons listed and the surnames that go with those persons was not always obvious. In such cases, I have generally listed the person under all likely surname interpretations. I have also made some assumptions in the case of females’ maiden names. Where, for instance, a John Jones and his wife, Mary Smith Jones, appear, I have assumed that Smith is Mary’s maiden name and have indexed her under both Jones and Smith. (Maiden names are shown in parentheses. An unknown maiden name for a married woman is shown as “(--)”.) It is hoped that by taking the liberties just described, the search for persons within this cemetery will be aided. I apologize for any errors made in my assumptions of surnames and maiden names.

Robert M. Murphy

To locate an individual grave use the burial lot index. Next to the name is a page number. Use the page number to determine which link below you will select.