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Stephen Twining wrote:

….documenting the Civil War Veterans for the City of Fitchburg, MA. One of our soldiers moved to your town, and died there on January 7, 1914. Would you be able to confirm this and also tell me where he was buried.
If you have a picture of him, and or, his gravestone I would very much appreciate a copy. I could also use any information that you have that you could share with me.
Denmark Historical Society responded:
Yes, Alfred Wood Belcher is buried in L.A. Berry cemetery in Denmark village. His stone lists his birth/death as 1838-1914. He was the town clerk 1904-1906. In the town records his date of death is listed as 1/19/1914.

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James S. Evans wrote:

Sally Williams of the Hiram society has given me your name as curator for the Denmark Historical Society.
My sister and I are the current co-owners of family heritage property in West Bridgton. We already have a huge lot more information about various branches of the family than most folks have, but I’m sure you appreciate a preference for written clues to substantiate family lore or one’s own speculations.
I think we have our Colby connections in pretty complete shape from copies of an extensive family history and supplementary notes from a cousin, Alice Colby-Hall, retired professor of French at Cornell University.
We would have greater interest in our Kimballs (Nathaniel, son of John) and in our namesake Josiah Evans originally from Fryeburg through the David branch as opposed to the more prolific John branch, David and John being owners of two of the “seven lots” when Fryeburg began.

Information from cemetery citations the historical society was able to provide Mr. Evans:

Colby Cemery
Evans Edwin d. Nov 20, 1908
Evans Mary L. d. Oct 16, 1900
Evans Josiah C. d. Aug 21, 1888
Evans Sarah L. d. Oct 5, 1907 Trafton
Schoolhouse Cemetery
Evans Infant Daughter d. April 3, 1852

Summer & autumn 2015 friends and members of Denmark Historical Society began photographing gravestones in a few of Denmark’s oldest cemeteries.  July 22nd John Patrick led the youth group to both Fessenden & Fessenden Ingalls Cemeteries atop Fessenden Hill. Members of the youth group inventoried and photographed the gravestones.

We were blessed with a warm summer and autumn and DHS volunteers, Jolene Snow and Lee Ann Shand, continued to photograph more of the older cemeteries around Denmark from August through November.

The town of Denmark mows each cemetery monthly when warm weather begins through to autumn. This year the town crew did upkeep work to Holt, Head, Pingree Berry and School House Cemeteries.

While we are hard at work inventorying graves in the cemeteries we noticed in our older cemeteries that stones are deteriorating. Not only are stones collapsing and breaking, but the writing is disappearing and stones are becoming unreadable.

At this time Denmark does not have a volunteer network which repairs fallen stones and cleans them with Maine Old Cemetery Association standards.