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The Avery Cemetery is located on Route 166A, southeast of
the Avery homestead, on private property. In respect for
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Avery Cemetery
Last
Name
Full
Name
Grave
Lot
#
Stone Stone
Photo
Comment Transcription
of
Stone
Surface
Avery Eliza Avery 4 Yes
Headstone
  ELIZA, / Wife of / JOHN A. AVERY. / DIED / Sept. 23, 1858, / Aged 55 yrs. / [epitaph illegible]
Avery Georgiana Avery 9 Yes
Headstone
  GEORGIANA / daughter of / John A. & Eliza / AVERY / died June 23, 1872 / AE 42 years
Avery Hannah Atkins Avery 1 Yes

Headstone
Footstone

Stone has eroded. [headstone] In memory of / HANNAH / wife of / Capt. Thatcher Avery / [illegible] / Dec. 20, 1828 / AE 55 / [epitaph illegible]
[footstone] H. A.
Avery Major John A. Avery 5 Yes
Headstone
  Maj / JOHN A AVERY / DIED / Feb. 16, 1874 / [epitaph illegible]
Avery John A. Avery 3 Yes Headstone Lichen has nearly obliterated inscription JOHN A AVERY / 1841 - 1914
Avery Mehitable Avery 6 Yes Headstone
Footstone
Stone is broken and has eroded. [headstone] MEHITABLE / [illegible]
[footstone] M. A.
Avery Samuel Edgar Avery 7 Yes
Headstone

  SAMUEL EDGAR AVERY / DIED / Apr. 27, 1888 / AE. 24 yrs. 8 days / [epitaph illegible]
Avery Sarah Parker Avery 8 Yes

Headstone
Headstone

Stone is broken right across age inscription SARAH PARKER AVERY / DIED / Oct. 23, 1860 / AE 21 [illegible]
Avery Capt. Thatcher Avery 2 Yes

Headstone
Footstone

  [headstone] In Memory of / Capt. THATCHER AVERY / died May 4th 1827 / AE 70 / Great God I own they sentence just / And nature must decay / I yield my body to the dust / To dwell with fellow clay
[footstone] T. A.
Avery Thatcher Avery 12 Yes
Headstone
  THATCHER / SON OF / Capt. Thatcher Avery / died Feb. 1863, / AE 78 years
Grindle Jane E. Grindle 10 Yes
Headstone
Footstone

  [headstone] JANE E. / Wife of / Joseph D. Grindle / DIED / May 19, 1874. / AE 47. / She has gone the dear one and the loved, / No tears nor prayers her life could save / From cares of earth to realms above, / To rest in peace beyond the grave.
[footstone] J. E. G.
Grindle Joseph D. Grindle 11 Yes Headstone
Footstone
Stone is broken [headstone] JOSEPH D. GRINDLE / DIED / Apr. 2, 1890. / AE. 89 yrs. 4 ms. / & 15 days
[footstone] J. D. G.
Perkins Lucy Perkins 13 Yes

Lot
Headstone
Footstone

  [headstone] In Memory of / LUCY PERKINS / Dau of Capt JOHN / & PHEBE PERKINS / died March 4, 1782. / in the 12th Year / of her Age / Beneath this clod of silent dust, / I sleep where all the living must.
 
Avery Cemetery layout
 
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