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The following is a list of Civil War Veterans at Valley Cemetery in Manchester and the inscripions on their gravestones.  This list represents what was taken from 3,400 photos of all of the gravestones in the cemetery.  There are about a dozen that have not been listed because they are illegible and need to be investigated further.
One interesting thing I noticed was that Henry Hayward and Joseph Moore died on the same day and in the same battle in Virginia but their graves are far from each other.  If anyone would like a map of these graves, just contact me. 

Hillside Cemetery in Goffstown, NH was established in 1768.  Here is the oldest gravestone that I found at Hillside which dates from June, 5th 1768.  Possibly the first grave in the cemetery?

The mapping of Valley Cemetery is now complete.  All 1,300 family burial sites have been documented with photos and the inscriptions on every gravestone.  Approximately half of the photos have been transcribed and entered into our GIS (Geographic Information System).  However, the focus is on further data collection at other cemeteries before they are covered in snow.  Valley Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places so there are quite a few interesting graves to be found here.

1. Using professional GPS equipment we record the exact location of each family or individual burial site. 
2. Photos are taken of every inscription on the gravestone(s) that are located at a particular burial site. 
3.  The photos of the inscriptions are then transcribed by a team of individuals who enter the data into a database.