John Downs' Cemetery Records, #31:
The Annis - Littlefield Plot

[Copied from the Henney History Room at the Conway Public Library, Conway, New Hampshire]
Published on the WWW by the Littlefield Family Reasearch Page

Below is the record on file in a binder at the Conway Public Library that contains listings of area cemeteries that were collected years ago. The actual directions to this cemetery are much easier to follow today and will be posted pending permission from the landowners. Click on the names that are highlighted to see photos of the actual headstones.

"	By way of Conway go to the residence of Victor Staples in the Tasker Hill
section of Madison which is on the Oak Hill road.  Continue just a short ways and
leave your car beside road.  Walk along the road west, cross brook and bear left
at what is apparently an intersection or corner.  Go south about three-quarter
until you come to an entrance on the left which has four stone posts; about 25
yards this side and north of that entrance, turn off to west on old road
about 50 yards and on left on a knoll where is a split stone enclosure about 30'
square and about 3' tall.  Unfortunately most of the stones here are laying flat
on the ground and many were covered by dirt and leaves.  We hope we located them
all."

 

Judith F. Annis at Great Falls NH Sept 22 1851 AE 23 "Beneath this stone, till Christ shall bid her rise A sacred dear and a much loved friend lies Yet cease to weep, his God, be calm and still And bow in Sweet submission to his will"

Joseph Annis Died Dec 16 1863 AE 72

Hiram Annis Died Sept 10 1865 AE 44 yrs 7 ms Maria His wife died May 14 1862 AE 32 yrs 24 ds with foot stones marked HA and MA

Eleanor wife of Joseph Annis DIED Oct 4 1854 AE 57 yrs 3 mo & 4 ds

Horace P son of Tobias & Eunice Littlefield Sept 20 18?8 AE 9 yrs 2 ms


Page Two

Fred G son of 
Freeman & Hannah D Littlefield
Died
Dec 27 1881
AE 19 yrs 4 ms

Ezra son of Freeman & Hannah D Littlefield Died Dec 24 1881 AE 24 yrs 10 ms

Frank L son of Freeman & Hannah D Littlefield Died Dec 11 1871 AE 16 yrs 8 ms

Albert son of Freeman & Hannah Littlefield April 1 1868 AE 21

Hannah D wife of Freeman Littlefield died March 18 1887 AE 66 yrs 10 ms

Eunice wife of Tobias Littlefield died March 3 1864 AE 67

Eunice daughter of Tobias & Eunice Littlefield, died Sept 12 1847 AE 21 yrs

Tobias Littlefield DIED Dec 7 1870 AE 82 yrs

"The following inscription was given me by Alvah Carver but we did not see it"
Dorcas L wife of Rev James Mills 6 July 1856 AE 35 yrs 6ms


Page Three
"There are quite a few field-stones marking other graves some of which probably
 carried inscriptions at one time.  We estimate about 30 burials in this lovely 
spot but it sadly needs cleaning up and resetting the stones."


Addendum by Greg Littlefield
One addition [6/24/04]:

Infant
son of
Freeman &
Hannah D
Littlefield
died Dec 23
1845
AE 2 days

Also: The last headstone for Dorcas L. Mills is, in fact, in that cemetery. It was seen by both myself and David Emerson.

Click here to see a composite picture of the cemetery itself.
And for goodness sake, drop me a line if you're related to any of these folks!