Whittemore Cemetery 

17 Thompson Hill Road, Thompson   1.03 acres
GPS Latitude 41.96998 Longitude-71.88879

The Whittemore Cemetery is a family cemetery bordering the American Legion parking lot.
The cemetery is located across the street from the old Whittemore Tavern.

There are eleven (11) stones with only four (4) different names…..Aldrich, Whittemore, Sawyer and Witherell. Research shows that, except for Laban Witherell, all the deceased are children and grandchildren of Willard and Sally B[ixby] Whittemore. Laban Witherell’s mother Olive, though not related to the Whittemore’s, was one of the witnesses to Willard Whittemore’s will in 1838.

The earliest burial is that of Lucia Witherell, who died May 13, 1814, at age 2 years and nine months. Looking at the other burials, there is one for an infant daughter of Robert and Lucia Sawyer; Lucia is another daughter of Willard and Sally. This use of the same first name for successive children when the first one dies young was very common.

Mary Jane (Whittemore) wife of Thomas Aldrich, and three of their children all died between July 19, 1852 and February 8, 1853; one can only wonder what happened during those seven month to cause their deaths. Research indicates that Thomas remarried a woman from Massachusetts, joined the Union Army and was killed in the Civil War; he is buried in the West Thompson Cemetery with his second wife Sophia (Flint) Aldrich.

The Whittemore Cemetery in the document section below may help in locating a tombstone; this is the original Hale’s List of Cemetery Inscriptions which records the gravestone locations as the person who collected the information walked through the cemetery.

Ida Ransom, July 2024

Documents:
Hale