Hampton Township Cemetery
Memorial Day, May 30, 1922, at Hampton Cemetery, brought together some of the community’s remaining Civil War veterans and local school participants for a commemorative program. Seated and standing behind the Flag Drill Team were four of the last surviving veterans, left to right: Maniel Smith, Richard Maxwell, Charles S. Lee, and Joseph Young. The schools were closely involved in the observance, with schoolteacher Lucille Hogan (Ackerlund) participating alongside the girls of the Flag Drill Team and event organizers. Also pictured, from left to right, are Gertrude Duncan Coder, standing by the pillar as one of the event’s directors, Helen Kleuver-Thomas, Evelyne Bloomer, Loretta Oltman-Valentine, Alice Odell, Ann Eliza Lee (Haertjens), Marjory Marks, Edith Light (Monson), Anna Lingner (Purviance), Bernadine Donehue (Nickerson), Dorothy Wilkens (Murray), and Lucille Hogan (Ackerlund). The man behind the fence is believed to be either Jacob or Theodore Hermes. Notably, the pillars shown in the photograph still stand today, while the fence is no longer intact.
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The Beginning
1838 – 1st Add – Blk 36
The first Plat of the Hampton cemetery was first recorded in Book of Deeds page 479; this plat, however, together with the certificate accompanying it appear to be partially destroyed; the plat of said Addition has been re-recorded in Book 2 of plats page 4, but we cannot find the certificates which accompanied the original plat; are there recorded.
In Book B, page 479, where said plat was first recorded, we find a certificate of acknowledgment for Soranus Britton, taken June 4, 1838, before Lucius Wells, Justice of the Peace, acknowledging the survey and plat to be correct and true.
1893 – 1st Add -Blk 36 Subdivided
On September 8, 1893, G.F. McNabney certified an addition to the cemetery by filing the following survey. The addition to the cemetery brought another 99 of plots (lots 59 – 158). four of the lots were placed in the middle of the original plat while the remainder were placed in the northeast portion of Blk 36.
1897 – 2nd Add – Blk 36 Subdivided
On November 22, 1897, G.F. McNabney certified an addition to the cemetery by filing the following survey. The addition added lots to the East of the original and 1893 addition beyond the existing town plat. These additional 48 lots were later subdivided, as shown below.
1907 – Lot 65 – 1st Add – Blk 36 Subdivided
On July 6, 1907, and again on October 28, 1907, the village took action to add the cemetery to the available lots. Lot 65 of the 1st Addition was subdivided and sold as twelve smaller 8-foot by 3-foot 9-inch lots. While on October 28th of the same year, the village added Addition 3.
1907 – 3rd Add
The October 28, 1907 addition extended the cemetery boundaries farther east and added 73 additional lots. This is the farthest east this cemetery would extend (2026). Several subdivisions and one extension to the west of the original 1st Addition would happen. In addition to the 6th Addition made by Hampton Township in 1980.
1911 – Lot 63 & 64 – 2nd Add – Blk 36 Subdivided
On April 24, 1911, the cemetery subdivided lots 63 and 64 of the 2nd Addition into smaller lots. The survey, recorded May 11, 1911, indicates 24 lots, 8 feet by 3 feet 9 inches.
