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There are no longer any stones existing but from old records there are 12+ burials here, most from the Gould Family
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located directly behind the Old French Creek School on the hill side
Author: Herbert M. Gould
Nathan Gould, Sr. was born about 1733 in Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, son of Samuel Gould and Mehitable Stiles. He moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts as a young man, and married there October 31, 1756 to Martha Perkins Gilbert. They had eight children, including sons Jonathan, Benjamin, Paschal Paoli, Nathan Jr. and Gilbert Gould, and daughters Mehitable and Lydia Gould. In 1782 he moved to Charlemont, Massachusetts. Before moving to Charlemont, he and his brother, Samuel, served in Colonel Nathaniel Wolcott’s company, made up in Brookfield, in the French and Indian War. He fought in the Battle of Crown Point in 1755, and with Wolcott’s Company in 1757. During the Revolutionary War he served as a Private in the Massachusetts militia (Minutemen).
He moved to Virginia (now West Virginia) with his son, Nathan Jr., in 1816, where he died of pneumonia just two weeks after arriving there. It is believed that his illness started during his long journey. He is buried in the Old French Creek Cemetery in French Creek, Upshur County, West Virginia.
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