A List of Known Family Burial Sites
The links on this page are to known family burial sites. A link to further information about each person is provided if it exists. Where a photo exists, click on the photo as it may enlarge.
Wilder, Wood and Thompson family burials in Somerset County, Maine.
Oliver Wood and his first wife, Lucy Hosmer Wood, moved their family from Concord, Massachusetts to Norridgewock Maine in 1774, and lived there until their deaths, she in about 1786, and he in 1814. The Lucy Wood buried with him is actually Lucy Tarbell Wood, his second wife. The burial site of Lucy Hosmer Wood isn't known. Their son, Silas Wood and his wife Sybil raised their family in Norridgewock, as well. Their daughter Mary, known as Polly, married Dr. Asaph Thompson in 1804. Thompson's own family were from Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in the Middleborough and Halifax area. Asaph and Polly Wood Thompson's daughter Hadassah Thompson married James Marvel Wilder, of Temple Maine, in 1828. They settled in the village of North Anson, where their son Francis L. Wilder was born and lived until his twenties, when he moved away--first to Nova Scotia and then to Philadelphia, where he probably met his wife, Anna Wile of Pleasant Valley, New York. Their son, James Lewellyn Wilder, was the father of Marian and Agnes Wilder. The last member of our direct family line to live in Somerset County, Maine was James Marvel Wilder, who died in Kendall's Mills (Fairfield), Maine, in 1864. He is buried next to his first two wives in North Anson, Maine. His third wife's gravesite isn't known.
Oliver Wood, Silas Wood, Sybil Smith Wood, Polly Wood Thompson, Asaph Thompson, and Persis Thompson are buried in the Old Oak Cemetery in Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine. If you're unfamiliar with using Google Maps, there should ba a small white circle in the view shown. By moving the circle along the road, your will move up or down the road with the circle. In the lower right of the view shown, there is a small map in a box, which you can click on to see a regular map of the view. The little compass-like tool at the upper left of the view allows you to turn the view around or to zoom in. By clicking on the "Get Directions" button on the left hand side of your window in Google Maps, you can determine a route from a given starting point in the US to any of these cemeteries.
Hadassah Thompson Wilder and James Marvel Wilder are buried at Sunset Cemetery in the village of North Anson, Somerset County, Maine.
Oliver Wood (1734-1814) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Oliver Wood was the great grandfather of Hadassah Thompson Wilder. He is buried in Old Oak Cemetery, Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to more information about Oliver Wood's life:
Silas Wood (1753-1834) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Silas Wood was the son of Oliver Wood and Lucy Hosmer Wood. He was the grandfather of Hadassah Thompson Wilder.
He is buried in Old Oak Cemetery, Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to more information about Silas Wood
Sybil Smith Wood (1759-1852) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Sybil Smith Wood was the wife of Silas Wood, and the grandmother of Hadassah Thompson Wilder. She is buried in the Old Oak Cemetery in
Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to more information about Sybil Smith Wood
Dr. Asaph Thompson (1772-1834) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Asaph Thompson was the father of Hadassah Thompson Wilder. He is buried in the Old Oak Cemetery in Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to more information about Asaph Thompson
Mary "Polly" Wood Thompson (1786-1842) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Mary, or Polly Wood Thompson, was the daughter of Silas Wood and Sybil Smith Wood. She was the wife of Dr. Asaph Thompson, and the mother of Hadassah Thompson Wilder. She is buried in the Old Oak Cemetery in Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to more information about the life of Polly Wood Thompson
Persis Thompson (1810-1834) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Persis Thompson was the younger sister of Hadassah Thompson Wilder, and the daughter of Asaph and Polly Thompson. She is buried in the Old Oak Cemetery, Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine.
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Hadassah Thompson Wilder (1806-1832) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
Hadassah Thompson Wilder was the first wife of James Marvel Wilder. She was the mother of Francis L. Wilder, and the grendmother of James Lewellyn Wilder. She is buried at Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, Somerset County, Maine.
A link to further information about the life of Hadassah Thompson Wilder.
James Marvel Wilder (1806-1864) Note: Click on the headstone photo for a zoom image.
James M. Wilder was the father of Francis L. Wilder, the grandfather of James Lewellyn Wilder and the great grandfather of Marian and Agnes Wilder.
He is buried at Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, Somerset County, Maine. Also on this link is a photo of the stone of his second wife, Rebecca Wait Wilder, who raised Francis Wilder from young childhood, after his mother Hadassah died.
A link to further information about the life of James Marvel Wilder: