WENDELL — A Montague man has volunteered to restore and maintain the old smallpox cemetery at the end of Morse Village Road. A gravestone at the Wendell smallpox cemetery. This issue arose when David Detmold appeared before the Selectboard on July 15 to discuss reestablishing access to the smallpox cemetery. A small gravestone at the Wendell smallpox cemetery. To add to town officials’ confusion, Forward said it is a town cemetery that was developed to isolate people who had died of smallpox.