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Rh August 7th, 1858, the Town voted to purchase some land, near the west village, for a new cemetery, and chose Elisha S. Jackson, John W. Hill, and Francis Richardson, a committee for that purpose; they bought ten acres of land: seven or eight acres of Dea. Asa Perley, and two of S. W. Bancroft. The land lies west of Crystal Lake, and is called Crystal Lake Cemetery.

Considerable labor and expense is now being bestowed upon it, and it has the appearance of being a beautiful place (when completed) for the reception of the dead.

Aaron Wood, Simeon Leland, William Whitney, Smyrna Glazier, Asaph Wood, Francis Richardson, Lewis H. Bradford, Rufus Newton, S. W. A. Stevens, John Edgell, Thomas E. Glazier, Thorley Collester, and C. W. Carter. The last mentioned one is an attorney at law.

Joseph Boyden was probably the first physician in Gardner. Soon after he came into town,