CANTON — A Dixfield man, with the assistance of a group of living history reenactors who depict life in the pre-1840 era, paid tribute to his sixth great-grandfather Friday evening by placing a flag and Revolutionary War marker on his unmarked grave. In October 2014, Nelson Coolidge, 71, discovered that his sixth great-grandfather, Simon Coolidge, […]
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Finder of long-lost Canton Mountain Cemetery learns his ancestor was a Minuteman
EAST DIXFIELD — Since October, when the Sun Journal published a story about an East Dixfield man finding a long-lost cemetery on Canton Mountain, people have been contacting Nelson Coolidge to tell him his ancestor was a Minuteman. Canton Mountain Cemetery, or The Burying Place, as Coolidge’s ancestors called it, is believed to be the […]
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East Dixfield man finds long-lost Canton Mountain Cemetery
CANTON — Nelson Coolidge of East Dixfield may have finally found the final resting place of Simon Coolidge, his sixth great-grandfather, who was the first settler in Canton and Jay in the late 1700s. It’s a long-forgotten, stone-walled cemetery, measuring 20 by 30 feet on the northern side of Canton Mountain, which Nelson’s ancestors called The […]
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Canton officials find town’s long-lost historical documents
CANTON — While packaging town books, documents and equipment in boxes to move them into Canton’s new Town Office on Route 108, town officials discovered several long-lost historical items. Administrator Scotty Kilbreth, a selectman in the 1980s, and Selectman Brian Keene rediscovered the find Wednesday night that Keene and Selectman Robert Walker Jr. found last […]