Deacon Oliver's Cemetery
Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine

part of the Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 400 - Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
info@vfthomas.com - 207-266-5748


(updated 20 August 2011)





Location. UTM: 19T 0550393, 4915130; Lat./Long.: N 44°23′15.7″ x W 68°22′2.3″

Directions. From the intersection of Routes 3 and 102/198 at the north end of Mount Desert Island (just after you cross the bridge from Thompson Island), go straight ahead (south) onto Routes 102/198. In approximately 1.9 miles, turn right onto Indian Point Road. Travel on this road another 1.9 miles to a road on the right. Look for signs (2000) on a large tree indicating "Indian Point" and "The Nature Conservancy". Turn right onto this road, and park in the lot on the left. The sign "private road/residents only" applies to vehicles. A narrow trail leading to the cemetery is less than 0.4 miles up this road on the right.

History.

Notes. The cemetery is enclosed by rope suspended between wood posts, with rope absent between one pair of adjacent posts to provide an entrance/exit. It is maintained by descendants of Deacon Oliver Higgins.

Date of most recent visit. 23 April 1999

Names and dates on gravestones and other markers. (complete as of 23 April 1999)
BURBANK
   Emeline (HIGGINS; dau. of S[y or i]lvanus1 [no stone] HIGGINS and Abigail K.) - d. 5 October 1863 Æ 26 y., 7 m.
HERLIHY (Herlihy genealogy)
   Belle - b. 1864; d. 1953
   D. Walker - d. 26 August 1929 Æ 38 y., 2 m., 27 d.
HIGGINS (Higgins genealogy)
   Abby B. (wife of Willard C.) - d. 27 January 1924 Æ 96 y., 11 m., 27 d.
   Abigail K. (wife of S[y or i]lvanus1 [no stone]) - d. 28 August 1856 Æ 50 y., 8 m.
   Alexander H. (son of Willard C. and Abby B.) - d. 5 March 1863 Æ 2 y.
   Alfonso (son of Oliver and Elizabeth [no stone]) - d. 6 October 1856 Æ 10 y., 9 m., 2 d.
   Andrew J. (son of Deacon Oliver, 2nd, and Ruth) - d. 17 September 1838 Æ 21 y., 6 m.
   Ellen (dau. of S[y or i]lvanus1 [no stone] and Abigail K.) - d. 10 May 1848 Æ 2 y.
   [Emeline - see BURBANK]
   Harvey L. (son of Oliver and Elizabeth [no stone]) - d. 18 February 1881 Æ 16 y., 9 m., 28 d.; bur. Salem, N. H.
   Howard P. (son of Oliver and Elizabeth [no stone]) - d. 20 November 1869 Æ 21 y., 6 m., 21 d.
   infant (son of S[y or i]lvanus1 [no stone] and Abigail K.) - [b. and?] d. 15 June 1842
   infants (children of Oliver and Elizabeth [no stone]) - [no dates]
   Julia J. (dau. of Willard C. and Abby B.) - d. 23 February 1863 Æ 4 y.
   Julia S. (dau. of S[y or i]lvanus1 [no stone] and Abigail K.) - d. 15 March 1863 Æ 30 y., 16 d.
   Oliver (husb. of Elizabeth [no stone]) - d. 26 April 1898 Æ 77 y., 2 m., 17 d.
   Oliver, 2nd (Deacon; husb. of Ruth) - d. 6 February 1870 Æ 90 y.
   Ruth (wife of Deacon Oliver 2nd) - d. 10 October 1849 Æ 67 y., 6 m.
   Willard C. (husb. of Abby B.) - d. 20 March 1892 Æ 68 y., 1 m., 22 d.

Note:
   1Different on different stones.



Images and information (including corrections) should be e-mailed to info@vfthomas.com or sent by traditional mail to Bar Harbor Cemeteries, c/o V. F. Thomas Co.; P. O. Box 400; Southwest Harbor, ME 04679.