This cemetery was transcribed and compiled by
Penny Murray
She has generously donated this listing
to the Northeast Kingdom Genealogy web page.
A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation,
is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual
(typically every adult), without reference to income
or resources. The word "poll" is an archaic term for
"head" or "top of the head". Voting poll taxes (whose
payment was a precondition to voting in an election)
have been used to disenfranchise impoverished and
minority voters. ( Wikipedia )
The Twenty-fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964,
prohibits both Congress and the states from
conditioning the right to vote on payment of a poll tax
or any other type of tax. ( Wikipedia )
