The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-13
onD CONNECTICUT aRATETARDs
r,,tapss ESQ Year. Ola that May stu DO
Read In Them.

Read In Them.
or.c,onot 70 very many miles In Connect'cut
without stumblnc upon some little graveyard
whore the crumbling headstoncs are covered
with moss and tho grass runs riot. In some
instances the names and dates on the TOMB
ston.s have boon obliterated by the hand OF
limo, while IN others they can be Just oareiy
made out Most OF those burial erouhus
ara the samo to-day that they were n hair
century ago During these years thoy have
beon untouched. Only In rare instances have
interments been made since tho hist decade
Of the present century.
Tho ouaintest and auietest burying ground
in the State. aud in all Now England ior that
matter. is situated almost In tho very heart Oh
the city OF Hartford. 1t is completely hidden
behind the old Centre Church on Main street
and other high buildings In the neighborhood'
A high brick wall encloses the acre ana n
half OF ground. The huge Gins ana naples
with which the plot abounds have grown ooth
ways. In aome instances tho roots oil these trees
have broken through tho ground and WRAPPED
themselves tightly around the Srumoling
headstonss II II were not for ths s ssrH oms
the wend hS,e is Rat Of
Hooker. This is what his epi,aph says:
Of Thomas yns ls' With nm aso o
where an.eay r,. anrrsh In con on
Sssi,su ii. AZ de-: sa1 S"s feS ."a i.'D
HIS moss.covered stone bears this sncomlum:
MI. samuel Stove
Deceased j SS i; 81 u III, Sss' OF his '''
New Ensand glory and her .a Ts a. sax e,own'
,s .n mar PP.. /" ss.: ss,
IT'S knowing beyond compare he did excel
Connecticut's fret Governor Is also , bn5ie cd
Memory msasa on 1sI sson 70 Sssona liz Iss
EneIand." there IS nothing out Of the ordinary
about his inscription. ~.
colony M had been settled was David Gardiner:
He lived to be 81 years Oil ne was 6p I,ia
walled plot. His memory has boon favored
with the following lines:
We'll S m on q. STn. %S.s ses
dost sec hOw swiftly hours depart
Born n., a. >, sAy ya,S
Tho frs. white child born in Connecticut
Another historical slab is tina, which marks
hs q shs s sssors
inscription rends. "a Lieutenant IN the de.
ss Ra ana Th ns Of The 1t Say sy
manded BY Major x ndrs.
tenant insured tho peace OF New England:
Can't John Mason; with ninety men. SURPRISED
Mystic and burned the defeneos. Capt John
Mason. the lea .er Of that famous Indinn cam
Sd II tnH old es Sd
thirty other orig nal settlers, Of that town.
These interments all occurred in the late
however. The old cemetery is cone shaped
and has single ire" growing from Its s. summit;
graves have long since become Ieyeiiei. The
crude stone fence however. aud is kopt d sa:
A dozen miles from there Is the old Lebanon
buryinR ground. where more il!ustrious dead
Faction Thi. " tomn Contains the ashes c" Of
Connscticps's var Governor .Brother iona;
the other his amy cal %hom
Iseted for many years. The sons Of the ReSo-
however. and It viii be. repaired. All around
this tomb cracked and mnss-covered head
bnshes. These stones bear Inscriptions which
were chisel!ed 80 long ago that they can
be I'd fSad between Dansou
vile and Providence are q number Of burial
sToapds where the same hssdso1fss hnYs
ments are made In 1t ~ special request. Only
Is X he in q
Church; 1tcomprses a small triangular plot
extending from the church to the Town Hall.
a%ny ny os
lotte.s. Nobody now knows who r. d. was.
sor has one. too. On one OF the stones In the
latter Is this inscriptions
Here Lye,h Ephraim IIvis
Sometimes Teacher to fe Chvrch of Windsor,
Who Died seDtr 4th. 1914
Who when hes lived. drew ovr vital, breath;
Who, when hoo Dyed. his Dying was ovr Death;
s,.y Of st.s
Ephraim was the first person buried In this
graveyard. Tho interment occurred seven
years after tho town Of Windsor was settled,
and five years before the beheading OF King
Charles l.
Among the rows OF crumhling stones In tho
old Wetherslleld burying ground is this one:
Here Ives tho body OF Leonard Chester. ArmigeI
late OF the town OF Blady,
and several other Lordships In Leicestershira
Deceased In Wethersheid Ammo Domn lG4s. Etatis 80.
Chester was one OF the first settlers of Weth-
er.field. In exploring The wilderness some
miles to the south OF the settlement he bee lme
lost In the woods. All thu other settlers set
forth TO hunt for him, MAXIM. noises in the
woods and uttering lamentations" He was
found several days later on the summit OF a
commanding mountain in the present town.
ship Of Berlin. The natives call 1t Mount
Lanentation now.
A common Inscription on the old Connecti-
cut headstones consists OF the following grus-
some lines:
Behold. my friend. as you pass BY,
AAyou are now l.
A am now so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow ma