Location:  Lat: 45° 25' 16" N,  Long: 71° 36' 35" W

From Lennoxville, take Route 108 East to the town of Cookshire. Continue through the town and the cemetery is on the right side of the road.

Notes: The present Cookshire Cemetery was established in 1885, when it was decided that the old burying ground in the center of town should be moved. All of the headstones and remains were removed from this original site and deposited at the present site east of the town.

This included the headstone and remains of Captain John Cook who came from Connecticut and died in 1819 and for whom the town was named; Orsamus Bailey, one of the original settlers, and Henry Sunbury, who came from Germany.

The cemetery is in very good condition with paved lanes and nearly all stones are legible. 

We visited this cemetery in November 2004, and transcribed from all existing and legible tombstones or markers.

Leslie & Angela Nutbrown [lnutbrown@videotron.ca]

Total Records: 1,556

Last Updated:  May 8, 2012

Legend: s/w = shares a stone with one or more people 

 

Records Index:

• Surnames A-F
• Surnames G-M
• Surnames N-Z