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WELCOME TO THE These pages contain a detailed list of burials
since 1791. It is updated at least annually. Please use this site to gather family
history information, cemetery news and information about the Riverside
Cemetery is the largest of the town’s 14 cemeteries. Located on the north bank of the
Androscoggin River in the town’s village of Mayville, it is adjacent to the Bethel Regional Airport and
reached from U.S. Route 2 by taking the North Road. Although,
Riverside Cemetery is the most active cemetery in the town at this time, the
West Bethel Cemetery, Pine Grove Cemetery Association, is also active and has
cleared more area for future burials. Another of the 14 cemeteries, one on Grover Hill in Bethel, has interred
deceased military veterans in the last decade. Mt Will Cemetery in North Bethel – it faces
Route 2 holds burials with a North Bethel, Swans’ Corner, Mayville and Sunday River heritage. Please contact The Bethel
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Many notable contributors to Bethel’s history,
political, social and economic development,
dating back to 1782, are buried in this peaceful, scenic place of final rest.
Rev. Eliphaz Chapman who was credited with suggesting “Bethel” as a town name
is buried here. Three Revolutionary
War veterans, Eli Twitchell, Moses Mason and Ebenezer Newell, are buried at
Riverside Cemetery. The farm buildings of the Mason family farm - some dating
from 1800 - still stand in use as a wayside inn and are within sight of the
cemetery. The oldest grave in Riverside Cemetery belongs to
Curatio Twitchell the two year old son of Eli and Rhoda Twitchell who died
August 14, 1791 was buried near the bank of the Androscoggin River. Less than
seven months later, the boy’s mother, Rhoda Leland Twitchell died on March
29, 1792. She was laid to rest next to her young son. The opening of this
family’s burial ground happened in Sudbury Canada Plantation in the District
of Maine. Four years later Massachusetts passed an act of incorporation that
created the town of Bethel. The burial listings of this website were obtained from the Bethel
Historical Society.
This initial listing begins in the older section of the cemetery starting at
the bank of the Androscoggin River and working across the cemetery toward
Bethel’s North Road. The lists will be
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Adaline G. Clough seated at her desk in the Research
Center of the Bethel Historical Society.
Mrs. Clough is a long time volunteer research specialist for the Society.
Through her work in Bethel cemeteries, we have the benefit of her physical
examination and recording of gravesite locations, names, dates and in some
instance inscriptions as they were found to exist during the last five years.
She started her cemetery research circa 2000.
On the behalf of the great number of us who so highly value this
information, I say, “Thank you, Adaline, for all your hard work”. |
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS BURIED AT RIVERSIDE CEMETERY Eli Twitchell, Esq., died
Nov 3, 1845 aged 88 years “A Soldier of the Revolution” Location of grave is in Avenue 7 of the Old Part Eli Twitchell came to Sudbury Canada in the spring of 1782 from Sherborn, Mass., |
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Moses M Mason, died
Oct 1, 1836 AE 79 Location of the grave is in Avenue 5, of the Old
part Moses Mason came to Bethel from Dublin, NH in 1799. |
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Col Ebenezer Newell, born
in Brookfield, Mass., May 25, 1744, died in Bethel, Maine Jan 14, 1831 AE 86
yrs His grave is located in Avenue 6, of the
Old Part. |
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