Frye Family Cemetery
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Frye Family Cemetery

Also known as Wardwell Cemetery

Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine, USA

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    Coordinates: 44.56904, -68.77320
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Lt. Jonathan Frye moved his family to Buckstown, Maine in the 1780's. He purchased a 100 acre land tract from Jonathan Buck. He died under mysterious circumstances, accidentally drowning in the Penobscot River.
A son Major Osgood Frye inherited the land and ran a Tavern and Inn for many years on his father's homestead.
Major Frye of the Bucksport Militia and his wife Jenny, and son Dean Osgood as well as Charlotte Eaton and Louisa Frye all came down with consumption which was the term used for tuberculosis at that time. They all soon died. All but Louisa who died in Boston are suspected buried in this Family Cemetery. The site of the Tavern is where the Spring Fountain Motel stands today.
The Frye Family Cemetery was mistakenly identified as the Wardwell Cemetery in 1986-88, when ground was broken for a road into the Town of Bucksport's new Waste Water Treatment Plant and the coffin of an unknown male was broken into with a backhoe. It was believed at the time that because Jeremiah Wardwell and wife were later buried on the same land, they were the bodies found. There is proof to the contrary through cemetery records and land deeds that they were later removed to Silver Lake Cemetery by a son Emery Wardwell.
This leaves little doubt that the Frye's who died on the land and cannot be found buried anywhere else are the graves that were discovered over 25 years ago. Today these graves are left unmarked and the cemetery sign reads Wardwell Cemetery.



Lt. Jonathan Frye moved his family to Buckstown, Maine in the 1780's. He purchased a 100 acre land tract from Jonathan Buck. He died under mysterious circumstances, accidentally drowning in the Penobscot River.
A son Major Osgood Frye inherited the land and ran a Tavern and Inn for many years on his father's homestead.
Major Frye of the Bucksport Militia and his wife Jenny, and son Dean Osgood as well as Charlotte Eaton and Louisa Frye all came down with consumption which was the term used for tuberculosis at that time. They all soon died. All but Louisa who died in Boston are suspected buried in this Family Cemetery. The site of the Tavern is where the Spring Fountain Motel stands today.
The Frye Family Cemetery was mistakenly identified as the Wardwell Cemetery in 1986-88, when ground was broken for a road into the Town of Bucksport's new Waste Water Treatment Plant and the coffin of an unknown male was broken into with a backhoe. It was believed at the time that because Jeremiah Wardwell and wife were later buried on the same land, they were the bodies found. There is proof to the contrary through cemetery records and land deeds that they were later removed to Silver Lake Cemetery by a son Emery Wardwell.
This leaves little doubt that the Frye's who died on the land and cannot be found buried anywhere else are the graves that were discovered over 25 years ago. Today these graves are left unmarked and the cemetery sign reads Wardwell Cemetery.



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