Documents & Forms
Applications
- Alternate Member Application (Fillable Form) - Application to serve a one-year term as a Cemetery Trustee Alternate Member.
- Application to Purchase Right to Inter - Application and Instructions to purchase a Right to Inter in either the Buzzell or Beech Grove Cemetery
- Application to Convert Lot Deed - Convert an existing Lot Deed into a Right to Inter Document for recording at the Belknap County Registry of Deeds
- Interment Designation - Form for the owner of burial rights to designate who may be buried within the site
- Interment Order Application & Process - Forms and Process to be used at the time of burial
- Private Burial Site Acceptance Policy and Application - Process for Town's acceptance of private burial sites
- Right to Inter Example - Example of Certificate used to transfer burial rights
- Volunteering
- Cemetery Volunteer Application Form (please complete and submit)
- Selectmen's Volunteer Release Form (please complete and submit)
- Selectmen's Volunteer Policy and Standards (please review)
Rules & Regulations
- Cemetery Regulations - Regulations established in accordance with RSA 289:2, as amended, for the operation and maintenance of all cemeteries and burial sites owned and/or maintained by the Town of Gilmanton including all sites declared abandoned by the Board of Selectmen.
- Burial & Cemetery Signage - Such signs will be erected at all sites under the protection of the Gilmanton Cemetery Trustees. For the protection of the sites, the signs will identify prohibited uses
- Human Remains or Burial Site Markers Beyond Cemetery Grounds - Discovering unmarked human remains and/or burial site markers or stones
Maps
- Beech Grove Cemetery Map - Map showing existing and for-sale lots
- Buzzell Cemetery Map - Map of Buzzell Cemetery showing lots available for sale in new section
- Cemetery, Burial Ground and Historic Site Map
Presentations/Proposals
- Abandoned Burial Ground Proposal - 2004 Project by which the Trustees assumed the authorization and rights of the natural lineal descendants of persons buried within neglected burial grounds to administer rules to protect neglected sites from intentional or inadvertent damage.
- Mary Butler Easement Presentation Document - 2007 Presentation of Mary Butler Homesite Easement to the Town
- NH DOJ 2015 Cemetery Trustee Seminar Slides
- NH DOJ 2015 Cemetery Trustee Seminar Handouts
- NH DOJ 2015 Cemetery Trustee Seminar Handbook
- NH Attorney General 2019 Seminar Slides
Cemetery Lists
- Cemetery, Burial Ground and Historic Site List
- Veterans interred in cemeteries and burial sites - Please contact the Trustees with information on additional Veterans to be added to this list.