Hill Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine)

Hill Cemetery

Pictured in 2021

Details
Established| 1831 (194 years ago) (1831)
Location|

Seal Lane,
Cousins Island,
Yarmouth,
Maine,

Country| United States
Coordinates| 43°45′54″N 70°08′30″W﻿ / ﻿43.7649°N 70.1416°W﻿ / 43.7649; -70.1416
Type| Private
Find a Grave| Hill Cemetery

Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, Maine. Located in today's Katherine Tinker Preserve,[1] it is now closed to burials.[2]

The cemetery is so named because it contains only members of the Hill family, with dates of death ranging from 1831 to 1899.[3] It includes burials of Revolutionary War veterans.[4]

## References

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1. ^ 'Every weekend if the weather cooperates' – Sun Journal, October 1, 2017
2. ^ Cemeteries in Yarmouth – Town of Yarmouth website
3. ^ Cousins and Littlejohn's Islands, 1645–1893, Katherine Prescott Kaster (1942)
4. ^ Revolutionary War Graves Register, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993) ISBN 9780960718825