UpIsland Church

Care for Greenwood Cemetery 

 

The Society for the Preservation of the Free Will Baptist Church has responsibility for the upkeep of the cemetery including spring clearing, mowing, and monitoring trees with potential for damaging plots in and on the edges of the cemetery. New burials occur yearly especially in the section west of the building particularly designed for cremated remains. A program is in the offing for cleaning grave markers and restoring and repairing them will be in the works soon.

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History

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The Greenwood Cemetery Corporation was formed in 1887. The land was bought from Emory N. Bunker, who left it to the directors to value the property. "..and will abide by their decision unless they value it too high." The directors bought more land from the Bunker family in 1903, 1909, and 1912.

 

Greenwood Cemetery is the resting place of the town's first settler and veterans of the Revolution, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II. Many sea captains lie here, among the headstones of sailors lost at sea.

 

People living in Islesboro today still remember the "hearse house" (complete with hearse) that stood beyond the fence at the north end. Legend has it that this was the source of the "hearse house spider" - a spider of awesome dimension whose descendants still live only above the Narrows in North Islesboro.