Cemetery records
cumberland county, maine

​SCARBOROUGH
WINDHAM

GORHAM - EASTERN Cemetery

Samuel Book p127-8: John Samuel Leavitt was born 6 Jan 1829 Tuftonboro NH, d 25 Nov 1909 Gorham ME (D/C says age 79,10,19 making the 1830 correct). Married Lydia French of Farmington NH 1 Apr 1821.  Front of cemetery along Main Street Rt 25.

The family of ASA LEAVITT
Asa Leavitt, 1810 - 1857               wife Emeline (Frost) Leavitt, 1819 - 1900
Emily F, their dau, 1847 - 1850
William P., their son, 1853 - 1907
Geo. B Leavitt, 1844 - 1922           Elizabeth E (Wescott), his wife, 1843 - 1917
 Ida M, their dau., 1878 - 1941
Eva L Hooper, their dau, 1872 - 1935
Click for larger photos; photos by Roland Rhoades of Gorham 2010.
[Family listed in the Descendants of Thomas Leavitt 1953, pg 91, under Robert and Sarah (Chute) Leavitt, with the note: "may not belong to this family"

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YARMOUTH - RIVERSIDE Cemetery

NOTE: I visited this cemetery in June, 2015, but a rainstorm followed me there, so none of my pictures of these Leavitt stones came out clearly. I need to return here for retakes. - Steve D.

Henry Leavitt, 9/24/1833 - 2/27/1908
Fannie (Berry) Leavitt, his wife, 1/3/1832 - 3/11/1890
James H Leavitt, 10/8/1860 - 9/6/1868
Eugene Leavitt, 2/4/1863 - 10/1/1902

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[Family can be found in the Descendants of Thomas Leavitt, pg 177].

​The son of Daniel and Sarah (Sands) Leavitt. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving as a corporal in Company C, 27th Maine Volunteers. He was promoted to Sgt on 1 Mar 1863, and served until being mustered out on 17 Jul 1863.

He removed from Buxton, Maine to Yarmouth between 1863 and 1870, and lived there until his death, working as a mill wright/machinist.