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Rh In 1859, a son of Lyman Fenno, four years of age, fell into a shiner-box and being too small to get out alone, was frozen; he was not discovered until death had completed its mission. A son of Mr. Flinn, two years of age, was drowned in a well. A son of John Hyde, four years of age, was drowned.

Small Pox. There were four deaths from small pox in 1854, and two in 1855.

Suicide. There have been seven deaths by suicide within the last fifty years.

Only one resident in town has been known to arrive at the age of one hundred; a man by the name of Chapel, of English birth, died in Gardner, about the year 1820, aged 103.

Since 1830, there have been 782 deaths; 11 between ninety and one hundred; 48 between eighty and ninety; 139 between fifty and eighty; 153 between twenty-five and fifty; 88 between fifteen and twenty-five; 343 under fifteen.

The burying-ground, lying north of the common, is owned by the town; the land was bought of Seth Heywood, in 1785; some years after,