Controversy unfolded when a midcoast man tried to buy a cemetery

Controversy unfolded when a midcoast man tried to buy a cemetery

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday morning. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. Butler Cemetery in Thomaston is small in size, measuring just a third of an acre. One might also say it’s big in spirit, with several military veterans among the people buried there, including a soldier named Phineas Butle…