Stowell Ancestor

2007-11-24 Dixfield Historical Society 033, originally uploaded by jessica_beagan.

I had some strange experiences in this graveyard today. Perhaps a hundred people are buried there, but I was drawn to photograph only a handful of stones. After I was done, Peter Stowell, our host for breakfast and a tour of the Dixfield Historical Society and the Eustis Cemetery, took me back through the graveyard and pointed out the exact stones I had already shot, and told me the stories behind them.

This stone had a lovely sunlight falling across it. It's the grave of 4-year old Albert Newhall Stowell, son of Levi & Sarah Stowell, who were founders of the State of Maine itself.