The Sheep Pen Cemetery Hands-On All Day Cemetery Preservation Workshop, hosted by the Greenfield Historical Society on Saturday, June 25, 2016, yielded amazing results ranging from discoveries of long buried gravestones to the raising up of the upright marker for Nancy Boyd who died on December 25, 1836 and was the earliest recorded burial at Sheep Pen Cemetery.
Scott Andersen reports that "a total of 46 gravestones were cleaned, and 32 gravestones were repaired or reset."
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On page 471 of the book: "Highland Pioneer Sketches & Family Genealogies" by Elsie Johnson Ayres, "The oldest grave was that of Nancy Boyd who died on Christmas Day, 1836."
(After Restoration Photograph on the right courtesy of Scott Andersen)
