The Edgecomb Baptist Church may have a buyer, Edgecomb Selectman Stuart Smith said November 18.

A real estate agent for the church's owner, the Grace Baptist Church of Chelsea, told Edgecomb selectmen on November 4 that the church on Old County Road had gone unsold for a year. Liability concerns about a cemetery that came with it had been scaring off potential buyers, the agent said.

The Chelsea church offered the town the cemetery as a gift, but selectmen, too, were concerned about liability. They also said they needed proof the church owns the property.

Responding to a November 19 email from the Wiscasset Newspaper, the real estate agent, Lisa Kalloch, wrote: “We are working on negotiating a contract.” That was all she could say at this time, Kalloch added.

In light of the new development Smith raised, selectmen on Monday night put off discussing the cemetery offer.

Smith said he didn't know if the church's sale would include the cemetery.

If the town can still get the cemetery as a gift, it should, resident Jo Cameron said. “I should think that you would be proud to take it,” she said.

The last burial there was in 1910, town officials have said.

“I feel (the cemetery is) of potential great importance to Maine and the town,” Cameron told selectmen.

Fellow resident Corning Townsend asked selectmen if there would be any advantage to having more town-owned property if the town accepted the cemetery. Selectmen knew of none.

The town is already a caretaker to the cemetery. Voters agreed in 2007 to take over its maintenance.