Fellow Epping descendants: Mrs. Madelyn (William) Williamson pH 603-679-5482 "Clover Farm" Epping, NH 03042 is the expert on Epping Cemeteries and other facets of Epping history. For a contribution to her cemetery association fund, she will probably help you out and answer your questions. A gentlemen named Donald Sandborn at 3 Fremont Rd Epping, NH. 03042 also tries to help. But due to his age he is limited in mobility. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Clark Bagnall <cbagnall@elcom.com> To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com <NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, July 30, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: RE: Cemetery Search, Epping >Christine, > >Join the club of those with ancestors lost in Epping!!! > >I'm not familiar with the cemetery you mention, but I have similar problems >with my own Epping families. Quite frankly, very few of the earliest >settlers in Epping could afford proper gravestones. Their graves are >probably marked with uninscribed field stones or are unmarked. > ><< It doesn't appear to me that whoever did this research actually went over >the fence and explored to see if they could find anything. I don't know how >they know it is a Cook-French cemetery.>> > >I can testify that the Williamsons, who did the research, were very >thorough. If it says there are no visible stones in the cemetery, then I >doubt you could find any. Since there are no stones, I'm not sure how this >was identified as a Cook-French graveyard, but it probably came from old >town records or from deeds. > >If you are trying to locate graveyards in New Hampshire, The New Hampshire >Society of Genealogists, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Old Graveyard >Association has a master listing on their web site, >http://www.tiac.net/users/nhsog/. Click on "N.H. Old Graveyard Association >database" and then on "NHOGA Master Burial Site Listing". The graveyards are >indexed by town and by graveyard name state-wide. The web pages have the UTM >coordinates for plotting the location on USGS maps. The amount of >information is limited, but these pages can help you find these old >graveyards fairly easily. The UTM coordinates for your particular graveyard >are E33491, N477007. There is an explanation on the NHSOG web site of how to >use these coordinates. > >I don't know when I will be in Epping next, but I will try to locate the >graveyard next time I'm passing through. > >Regards, >Clark Bagnall >Recording Secretary >New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association > > > >==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Rockingham County, NH, GenWeb: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > >============================== >Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! >Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp > >