Litchfield enquirer., 1876-06-08
coshen.-Mo. 238.


 BACK FIR .M PHILADELPHIA. and Mrs Charles c. Allyn have retu ned from their wedding trip to the Centennial CRUEtGY TO AnIMALs.-Mrs. Harriett Cook gave S1. .00J, last year, to the Socie- ty for prevention of cruelty to animals, besides the thousand she gave the year before. &31
 YOUR PLYMOUTH CoRREsPoNDENT.-We have always looked upon MT. 5 as your veteran, and he told your readers awhile ago that he confidently expected his arti- cIes would number 1O01, and I have for many weeks been looking over the record of deaths in your paper, for his name. but last week. he came out all right, with numbers 233 and 234.
 DECORATION OF REVOLUTIONARY SoL- D1ERs GRAvEs.-Our Centennial Commit tee, assisted by the other people. in addi- tion to the usual decoration of the graves of the Soldiers who fell in the Rebellion, put flowers on the graves of all the Revo- lutionary Soldiers which they could find. They first visited the West Side Grave Yard, where they found the old graves of John Norton, Alexander Norton, Philo Collins. John Riley and Abel Butler.
 At the Cemetry in the South West part of the town they found the ancient graves of Capt. Jabez Wright, Ambrose Collins, Abraham Wadhams. Wm Brown and Thomas Wire. @
 In the old grave yard South of the Gen. ter we found the graves of Capt Isaac Pratt and Joseph Brooks, the great grand father of Brooks Brothers, the Wolcott- vile Bankers, and we also put flowers on the grave of Rev. Stephen Heaton, the first Minister in Goshen.
 The wife of Joseph Bartholomew was buried there, but think her husband died of Small Pox, and was buried down near Milton.
 A large number; of people assembled at the Cemetery by the Center, all of whom took part in the decoration of the graves we usually visit, and the old graves of Col. Moses Lyman, Lieut.. James Thom- son (the grandfather of Prof. Wm. Thom- son of Hartford), Capt. Jonathan Buell.. Isaac Baldwin, Adino Hale, Joseph Gay- lord, D. Elisha Sill, John Thompson. Lieut.. Moses Cook, Allen Lucas, Samuel Miles and Jeremiah Kelley. JaazaniaI, Howe, the father of Miss Della Howe, now living here, died, away, and the flow CTS were put at the grave of his wife. Beautiful flowers were also placed on the grave of Rev. Grant Powers: He and Mir. Heaton were the only ministers who died here. Mir. F.A. Lucas, an officer in the late war, and MT. Kilbourne of LitchGeld, also an officer in the 18th, spoke of their fallen comrades; Mr. Willard E. Gaylord told us how his grandfather was brought away from New York on blanket, and Mir. Charles M. Thompson told us about his fathers being present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. The time set for vis- iting the old grave yard in East Street was just before sunset, an appropriate time to strew flowers on the graves of Lieut.. Asaph Hall, Col. Elihu Lewis, Cyp- rian Collins, Lieut.. Miles Norton, Ebe- nezer Norton. Che was my grandfather), Col. Medad Hills, Fish Beach, N. Stanley Parmelee and Brewen Baldwin. The grand children and great grandchildren of these petriots were present, and as the sun decended in the West, we listened to Mir. Edward Norton who recited long ex- extract from Gray's Elegy in country Thus ended the Centennial Decoration Day, the Committee having put flowers to the 19 new graves, as usual, B old soldiers graves, and two minister's, and the occasion will not be forgotten soon. The Committee would express their thanks to the people in all parts of the town for their assistance. 4. q
 BUR1A1.-The remains of Dea. Angus tus Thomson and wife. who died in East Windsor more that 20 years ago. were brought here last week and buried near other members of the James Thomson's family.