Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-24
Burial Grounds in Lamoille formerly
Orleans) County.

A short distance northwest from
the village of Hyde Park Street. not
far from the johnson town line is a
burial ground which was one of the
first in use in Hyde Park many of the
burials in which took place while the
western range of towns in what is
now Lamoille County were part of
Orleans County. The inscriptions on
two stones read as follows:
% John Mcdaniel
died Aug. IL, 1884.
Ae. Sc years.
The first settler in the
County Of Orleans.
(This grave has marker and flag.)
(2) Kiziah,
wife of John
Mcdaniel died
June 5, 1888.
Ae. 83 years.
There are about forty stones in the
yard, the majority of them in good
condition but several of them broken
and others in danger of breaking by
heavy branches of pine trees. The
stones give the following information.
DIED
Aaron Keller. Esq. % Oct. 1916 in
59th year. (Marker and fag.)
Hannah, wife of Jonas Wiswall, q
June 1843, At years.
Jane, wife of Frederick Keller, 80
Aug. 1858, ga years, months.
Mrs. Sally, wife of Frederick Keel
er. 9 March 1915. in 9th year.
Sarah. wife of Amos McKinstry. 26
March 1888, 80 years.
Amos McKinstry, 6 March 1914, IS
years.
Eliza j., daughter of Frederick and
Jane Keller, rs January 1914. "a
years, II months.
Grafton T., son of Grafton and
Prudence Downer rs Dec. 1914, S
years, months. Is days.
Cynthia O., daughter of Grafton and
Prudence Downer, 26 Feb. 1929. 7
months, II days.
Calista, wife of N. P. Keller, l
Nov. 1847, 81 years, and 2 months,
Mr.. Arson Keller. 10 Oct. 1928, in
37th year.
Mary. wife of John H. Stearns,
widow of Arson Keller, 80 June 1882
in Gath year.
Mary, wife of Joseph Matthews. II
Feb. 1874, 50 years.
Pulcherria H, wife of Horace
Stems, 81 March 1843. 26 years.
Francis Smalley, 8 June 1858, II
years, 6 months, 16 days. MARKER
and flag.)
Martha P, wife of Francis Small
ley. 8 Sept. 1852, SO years.
Capt. Jed Hyde. 20 May 1922, Sc
years. MARKER and fag.)
Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Jedediah
Hyde, 20 Nov. 1926. II years.
(Child's stone y George S., son of
Aaron and Pemelia Morse, 20 May
1910. Q845?) - and months.
Henry H., 7 March 1852. 7 years,
7 months; Henry H., 81 May 1852, 4
days; sons of Horace and Zorada R.
Stearns Next these is a stone in
scribed, "In Memory of Our Mother. y
Sally c., wife of Freedom Hyde.
9 June 1843, IS years., 2 months,
days.
Olive, wife of Henry Latimer. %
June 1843, in 9th year.
Henry Latemer. 13 Nov. 1851, IS
years.
Hannah, daughter of L. and o.
Wiswall, January (blank) 1916, as
years.
Olive, wife of Levi Wiswall, 9 JAN
uary 1880, 81 years.
David Randall, 178O-1845; Clara his
wife 1795-1843; Sarah. his wife 1888.
1868.
PAMELA 182O-1842; Rhoda B., 1919.
1847; wives of F. D. Randall.
F. D. Randall, Aug. 1891, IA
years; Louisa B.. his wife, 1821-19O6.
Phebe, "a Sept. 1852. 8 years, Caro-
line, 16 Sept. 1852, weeks, daughte
of A. and H. Harris.
Joseph F. NJ, son of Jesse B. and
Lucy Noyes, 3 January 1916, IL years
and months.
(The above gives complete record
of all graves marked in this yard,
May, 1917
History of the Shepard Family.
l find the children of Horace Shep
ard to be, Zilphia, born March 81,
1889; Milo, born Nov. %, 1870; mar.
ried to Sally Batchelder, April Is,
1877; Jonathan, born April 9, 1892
Permelia, born Oct. %. 1894; Sally,
born May 16. 1906; died Aug. Is, 1889
Horace. born May IL, 1909; died April
10. 1872. Milo Shepard. born Nov.
%, 1890. Sally Batchelder born Dec.
81. 1890; married April Is, 1877
A few days since l copied from two
marble slabs in the yard at Mort
Craftsbury the following: 'Mile
Shepard, died April 3, 1859, aged 6s
years Sally Batchelder, wife of Milo
Shepard, died November 20. 1856,
aged IS years."
They had eight children, seven girls
and one boy, as follows Calista Web
ster, born April 10. 1878; married te
Chester Brown (the writer of this
epistle), November 6, 1843; died Sep
r ~