James Stackpole

  General Notes:

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The cemetery on the hill is the spot where rest four gen-
erations of the Stacpole family. It is about fifty feet long by thirty feet wide. There are three rows of mounds and depressions indicating graves. The ancestors were evi-
dently buried in the middle row, and here about a dozen
graves are indicated. There are good reasons for believing
that the following persons were buried here :
- James Stacpole and wife Margaret (Warren),
Samuel Stacpole who died in 1758,
Philip Stacpole and wife Mercy (Thompson),
Joshua Stacpole and wives, Lucy (Baker) and Abigail
(Hobbs),
James Stacpole and wife Elizabeth (Pierce),
Stephen Stacpole and first wife Esther (Warren),
Philip Stacpole Jr. and wife Elizabeth (Tebbetts), and Anne Gray), wife of William Stacpole.

In 1906 the cemetery was a clump of trees and bushes.
These were removed. A fence was put around the plot
of ground. A monument was erected. It consists of a
granite base three feet ten inches wide, two feet thick and one foot four inches high, rock-faced, with beveled top chiseled, laid on cement foundation; and a die of Concord granite two feet ten inches high, three feet wide and one foot two inches thick, rock-faced on the sides, with curving top chiseled, and polished front and back, making the height of the whole four feet and two inches. The monument stands in the center of the cemetery. On its front is the following inscription : -

JAMES STACPOLE 1652 - 1736 EMIGRATED BEFORE 1680.

MARGARET (WARREN) HIS WIFE.

THEIR DESCENDANTS ERECTED THIS STONE IN 1907.

On the back of the stone are inscribed the following
names of ancestors known to have been buried here : -

PHILIP STACPOLE, 1690-1761, AND WIFE, MERCY (THOMPSON).

JOSHUA STACPOLE, 1713-AND WIVES, LUCY (BAKER)
AND ABIGAIL (HOBBS).

JAMES STACPOLE, 1714- AND WIFE, ELIZABETH (PIERCE).

STEPHEN STACPOLE, 1760-1843, AND WIFE, ESTHER (WARREN).

From "History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family" by Everett S Stackpole, 2nd Edition 1920.

James married.