Frankford Township

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Sparta Township 

Burial Places

[See spreadsheet below for Inscriptions]

 There are in Sparta two public burial-places, both located at the village of Sparta.  The Methodist churchyard was laid out in 1868. The graveyard at the Presbyterian Church contains a tablet to the memory of Robert Ogden, who died in 1787. Burials were probably made in the yard before that year, but no stones now record that fact. The Robert Ogden named was the father of Robert and Elias Ogden, large landowners and settlers in Sparta Township about 1766.  The inscription on the tablet reads:

 “In memory of Robert Ogden, Esq., who died January, 1787, aged  seventy.  In public life, both in Church and State, he filled many important offices with ability and dignity.  In his private business he was upright, eminently useful, and diligent.  He was temperate and humane, a friend to the poor, hospitable and generous, a most faithful, indulgent, and tender husband and parent, and, above all, his life and conversation from his youth was becoming.  A professor of religion and a believer in the name of the blessed  Jesus.”

 A broad tablet sets forth that it perpetuates the memory of Oliver Green, A B, “who was the son of Oliver Green, of Ashburnham, England, and a licentiate of the South Worcester Association, Mass.  He graduated at Dartmouth College, August 26, 1807, and died at the house of Robert Ogden, in Sparta, May 24 1810.”

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