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Left Section (RL+) (with links to photographs & sketches)
Old Upper Waterford Section (UW+) "Middle Section" (with links to photographs & sketches)
Right Section (RR+) (with links to photographs & sketches)
Old Pike Section (PI+) (with links to photographs & sketches)
Back Section (new) (RB+) (with links to photographs & sketches)
The Riverside Cemetery is really three cemeteries in one; it is an unusual conglomeration of two old cemeteries that were moved here, plus left & right 'wings' of new burials, plus a new expansion that is soon to be opened; making up 5 areas, and 6 sections. The central two (in front) are the old Upper Waterford Cemetery, the central third (behind them) is the old Pike Cemetery, the left and right wings are new, Riverside (by no other name), plus the newest section behind the Old Pike section.
When the Samuel Moore Hydroelectric Dam was built, two cemeteries in Waterford, Vt and one in Pattenville, NH were to be flooded and were moved in 1953. The Pattenville cemetery was adjoined along the north fenceline of the Wheeler Cemetery on the Dalton-Littleton road in NH; a new cemetery, Riverside, was created just downstream of the dam, and the Upper Waterford and Pike Cemeteries were moved there.
The arrangement of lots in these cemeteries was to be maintained in laying out the new, however, old photos and blue prints show that stones in the Old Pike Section are not arranged as they were in 1952. In fact, the Upper Waterford Cemetery was 12 lots wide and the new cemetery only 11, so that if the center walkway had been retained, it would run at an angle instead of straight back from the new little gate in the fence.
When this cemetery was transcribed in 1980, it was done so recording Row # and Stone #, these designations are used by the town as "official grave numbers"; therefore the attached map uses this designation for graves then existant, and survey lot numbers for newer ones, as that is how the town now officially identifies new graves in both the old and new areas of the cemetery.
For the sake of historical continuity, the "Pike" & "Upper Waterford" names are retained in this document.
Some families moved their relatives prior to the Power Co.'s moving of the entire cemetery; these vacated lots left openings in the "Pike" and "Upper Waterford" sections of the new cemetery. Burials have since occurred in these lots and the official records list "place of burial" as 'Riverside' or 'New Cemetery'; however, I have listed them as being buried in the Pike or Upper Waterford Cemetery, because they actually are in that cemetery - which, of course, is "in" the 'New Waterford', officially, 'Riverside' Cemetery.
Post-1980 burials are identified by Lot# vs. Row.Stone#..
NOTE: a slash "/" indicates the end of a line of engraving on the gravestone.
blue Stone #s indicate gs sketched or photographed - click to view.
DOBs followed by an "a" are calculated from the DOD on the stone minus the AGE on the stone.
italics indicate the info is from other vital or town records; but, not actually on the stone.
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