2011 - Town of Warner

Trustees of Town CemeteriesThe Trustees of Town Cemeteries are responsible for the condition andimprovements of the thirty cemeteries in the Town of Warner. A few ofthese are private family plots in relatively undeveloped areas of Warner,while the New Waterloo Cemetery located on Route 103 acts as theTown’s available public burial site.Several projects were completed in 2011 that enhanced Warner’s cemeteries.Robert Heslop graciously volunteered and replaced the wornentry gate at the Gore Cemetery on Kearsarge Mountain Road. CarolHoward deserves a special thank you for repairing several headstonesand portions of the stone wall at the Coal Hearth Cemetery. Muchneeded tree removal and trimming was done by a local contractor atboth Parade Ground and Old Waterloo cemeteries. Probably the mostnoticeable improvement this year was the installation, made possibleby a very generous anonymous donor, of new granite cemetery namemarkers erected at twelve town grave sites. The public can now moreeasily identify and locate the following sites: Melvin Mills, Gore, ToryHill, Coal Hearth, Schoodac, Davisville, Lower Warner, Old Warner Village,Parade Ground, Peaceful Retreat, Old Waterloo, and New WaterlooCemeteries. In addition, the Trustees would like to note here thatcemetery records from gravestones within the town’s public and privatecemeteries were recorded in 1982 by Roxana Smith. These alphabeticallistings have recently been made available on the Warner HistoricalSociety website.The Trustees wish to thank the American Legion, Gary Young, andLane Monroe for continuing their dedicated maintenance of several ofour town cemeteries through the fickle New England growing season.We also express our gratitude to all the citizens and friends of Warneron their generous support and interest in the Town’s cemeteries.Respectively submitted,Donald H. WheelerPenny Sue CourserGerald B. CourserMary E. CogswellKenneth W. Cogswell95