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 Martin Family Headstone - Brunswick, ME Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 43° 54.561 W 069° 57.425
19T E 423149 N 4862249
Pine Grove Cemetery, is a fairly large burial ground just east of Brunswick, set off by a white fence that surrounds most of its perimeter. Within are just a couple of zinc headstones, though there are more than 3,100 interments here.
Waymark Code: WMV394
Location: Maine, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2017
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Interestingly, there is a walking tour guide available at the visitors center for this cemetery. Land for the cemetery was purchased from Bowdoin College in 1821. Two additional tracts were also obtained in 1886 and in 1973. As a condition of each sale, Bowdoin College was deeded a row of plots to allocate as they wished. Traditionally, they were assigned to individuals and families who had given distinguished service to the College. There are several famous people interred here including Joshua Chamberlain: Civil War Union Brigadier General, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient and Governor of Maine. On the Pine Street side of the cemetery is a receiving tomb used to store bodies in the winter. Once the ground softened in the spring those individuals received a proper burial.
Buried around this very large zinc headstone are members of the extended Martin Family. It appears that the patriarch was Clement Martin and that three or four of his sons and the wives of some of the sons, as well as Clement, are buried here. The family headstone is huge, the largest we've yet encountered, It is in the form of a Greek temple with Doric and Ionic columns on all sides and a pediment above each inscription plate.
CLEMENT MARTIN
1789-1869
HIS WIVES
ABIGAIL D.
1790-1849
ROSANNA D.
1792-1860
CLEMENT
1864
MAHALA G.
JAN. 2, 1918.
ABBIE
MAY 31, 1922
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HENRY C. MARTIN,
DIED JULY 1, 1895.
HANNAH M. MARTIN,
DIED DECEMBER 24, 1913
THOMAS MARTIN,
1815-1841.
MATTHEW MARTIN,
1816-1847.
CLEMENT MARTIN,
1822-1849
ANNE FRANCES
MARTIN
DIED MAY 24, 1934
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