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Commissioners discuss naming and repairs for Merrimack County Farm cemetery after tour by commissioner
Summary
Commissioners heard a proposal to give Merrimack County’s historic farm cemetery a formal name, repair broken headstones and add signage after a commissioner’s recent walk through the site revealed damaged stones and unnamed graves.
Commissioner Steve Shurtleff urged the Board of Merrimack County commissioners Thursday to consider repairing and formally naming the small cemetery adjacent to the county nursing home and the rail trail. Shurtleff described visiting the site twice in a week and finding multiple broken headstones, dozens of graves marked only by numbers and several child burials dating to the late 19th century. "I found the graves of 4 children ... one was a girl who died at 4 weeks," Shurtleff said. "The saddest headstone was one that simply marked a number. It was the child that died in…
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