Settler’s Rest Cemetery (CEM.6)
Settler’s Rest Cemetery photos and text
Settler’s Rest Cemetery
Some of the first settlers in Sedgwick are buried in the cemetery which was originally called Billing’s Cemetery because it was on Billings land and many of that family are buried there. The land for the cemetery was donated by Parker B. Billings and his wife Sarah E. Billings in 1904.1
The earliest stone is said to be that of John Billings in 1803 but the stones of John and his wife Hannah, which are noted in a circa 1910 map of the cemetery done by Martha Maria Currier Simmons2, are no longer to be found.
Settler’s Rest circa 1900.
Trees have grown up around the cemetery but they somehow add to its sense of peacefulness.
Settler’s Rest Deed-Volume 406, pages 264/5
Settler’s Rest Deed-Volume 406, pages 264
Settler’s Rest Deed-Volume 406, pages 265
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1 Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Book 406 Page 264.
2 Private collection of Pamela and David F. Simmons