Franklin Stanwood

Biography

Franklin Stanwood (1852–1888) is memorialized through the stones of Western Cemetery, a quiet reminder of a life spent amid the hopes and labors of a 19th-century American community.

Though the particulars of his daily work have slipped from the public record, his kin still gather at this resting place to recall the steadiness of his presence and the small kindnesses by which he steadied his neighbors.