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Simeon Clark

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Simeon Clark

Birth
Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
9 Dec 1793 (aged 70)
Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
Burial
Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.9294758, Longitude: -72.3151934
Memorial ID
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PARENTS: Ebenzer Clark, & Anna Fisher.

WIFE: Betty "Betsey" Hall, married AUG 22, 1751, at Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA. (Note: His wife is buried at West Cemetery, on Bradford Rd., in Keene, NH.)

DAUGHTER: Unity Clark, wife of Joshua Durant, buried near her father Simeon Clark.

HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION:

Dea.
SIMEON CLARK
died
9, Dec. 1793
aged 70

MEMBER FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - KEENE, CHESHIRE CO., NH. Simeon Clark owned a pew on the floor of the meeting house. He paid 12 pounds, 10 shillings for it. *(Pg. 44)

CEMETERY INFO:
The Ash Swamp Cemetery is a small, unmarked cemetery which only has 14 standing headstones. It is surrounded by a wooden fence, Next to the golf course.

LOCATION:
The cemetery is on West Street in Keene, NH. The cemetery is located on the west edge of Keene, NH, on a 20' high hill near the corner of West St and Base Hill Rd. There are some wooden steps that someone built for access to it. (See Photo) It's about 20' above the road elevation on the N. side of West Street.

DIRECTIONS:
If you are on Route 9 on the west side of Keene going North, you exit at West Street and cross under 9 and about 150 yd on the left you turn left to go on West Street and then go about 3/4 mile and it will be where you see the steps on the right, just before the creek that goes thru the golf course.

* SOURCE: Book "History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties, NH." D. Hamilton Hurd (1886). Simeon Clark's headstone inscription is in this book. Page 92.


PARENTS: Ebenzer Clark, & Anna Fisher.

WIFE: Betty "Betsey" Hall, married AUG 22, 1751, at Wrentham, Norfolk Co., MA. (Note: His wife is buried at West Cemetery, on Bradford Rd., in Keene, NH.)

DAUGHTER: Unity Clark, wife of Joshua Durant, buried near her father Simeon Clark.

HEADSTONE INSCRIPTION:

Dea.
SIMEON CLARK
died
9, Dec. 1793
aged 70

MEMBER FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - KEENE, CHESHIRE CO., NH. Simeon Clark owned a pew on the floor of the meeting house. He paid 12 pounds, 10 shillings for it. *(Pg. 44)

CEMETERY INFO:
The Ash Swamp Cemetery is a small, unmarked cemetery which only has 14 standing headstones. It is surrounded by a wooden fence, Next to the golf course.

LOCATION:
The cemetery is on West Street in Keene, NH. The cemetery is located on the west edge of Keene, NH, on a 20' high hill near the corner of West St and Base Hill Rd. There are some wooden steps that someone built for access to it. (See Photo) It's about 20' above the road elevation on the N. side of West Street.

DIRECTIONS:
If you are on Route 9 on the west side of Keene going North, you exit at West Street and cross under 9 and about 150 yd on the left you turn left to go on West Street and then go about 3/4 mile and it will be where you see the steps on the right, just before the creek that goes thru the golf course.

* SOURCE: Book "History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties, NH." D. Hamilton Hurd (1886). Simeon Clark's headstone inscription is in this book. Page 92.




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  • Created by: Mel
  • Added: Apr 21, 2007
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19037680/simeon-clark: accessed ), memorial page for Simeon Clark (21 Aug 1723–9 Dec 1793), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19037680, citing Ash Swamp Burying Ground, Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by Mel (contributor 46865611).