The Newtown bee., 1892-03-25
HUNTINGTON.
RIPToN's ANCIENT BURYING GROUND ON
 PAXTON HILL.

tnis l1Te afteTa painful sickness with the small pox, April ye 4th, A. D., TIT, in ye 58th year of his age.
 In memory of Mrs Ruth Lewis, wife of Nathaniel Lewis, who died February 10, 1907, aged 90 years. In memory of Zeehariah Beardslee, who departed this life, September r, A. D., 174s, in the 62d year of his age.
 Also in memory of Mrs Elizabeth, his wife, who departed this life, May p, A. D., 1776, aged S4. The memory of the Just is Blessed.
 Here Ives ye Body of Mrs Mehetabel Blackleach, wife of MT Richard Black leach, died February ye Fist, 1856, in ye 54th year of her age.
 Gideon Wheeler, died May -, TAO, in ye 18th year of his age.
 Here Ives Buried ye Body of MT Hallet Marchant, who died November ye 9th, 1732, in ye 31st year of his age.
 Ebenezer Beardslee, son to Zechariah ye 7th, 1734-5, in ye 21st year of his age.
 Zechariah Beardslee was son of Daniel and grandson of William, the first of the name in Stratford. He married Elizabeth Curtis, June f, 1713.
 Ruth, wife of Nathaniel Lewis, was daughter of Zechariah Beardslee. They were married in TAO. The Stratford history intimates that his residence was in Trapfall; but, if Nathaniel Lewis, his son-in-law, died on the place afterward known as the David Judson place, this might have been where Zechariah Boards lee resided.
 Nathaniel Lewis once owned home and farm in Walnut Tree Hill, in 1761, where Daniel Jones now lives.
 His son, Capt Zechariah Lewis, great grandfather of the late Zachariah Lewis Shelton, resided there; he had a daugh- ter Elizabeth R., who married James Cunning; and Dunning's daughter Betsy married Elijah Booth Shelton, father of Zachariah.
 Nathaniel Lewis and wife Ruth had a daughter Anna, who married Joseph Hawley, son of Francis, son of Samuel 2d, son of Samuel, son of Joseph, the first in Stratford. Joseph had a son Jos Moses Wheeler, son of Dea Moses, son o1 Nathan, son of Moses 2d, son of Moses who came from England.
 Joseph 2d had son Roswell, who married Abigail Davis, daughter of Sam uel Buckingham and Mary, daughter ot had a son Edward S., who resides il Huntington Center.
 Nathaniel Lewis was the son of Go Edmund and grandson of Benjamin, frs in Stratford.
 Gideon Wheeler was probably the so1 of Robert Wheeler, the first of the name in Upper White Hills the stone contain ing his name lies upon the west side O the burying ground and is broken. Th' stones containing the names of Ebeneze , Beardslee and of Hallet Merchant ar' , lying flat on the ground. The write found them by punching the ground witl , his cane and scraped the turf and dirt ot , to read the inscriptions. Richard Blackleach was brother-t f. Cant .Tneorb.Ip authors essays of the cit, of the dead. He died in 1750; and hi wife is said to have been a widow Labori, of Guilford. This Richard had daugh , ter who married Peleg Burritt, Jr, sol of Peleg, son of Stephen, son of William Peleg, Jr, had son, Rev Blackleacl Burritt, who pursued his studies unde Rev Jedediah Mills of Ripton; entered Yale college, graduated in l765; preach ed in several different places, married Martha Wells, a descendant of Thomas Wells, Connecticut's colonial governor died, it is said, at Wynhall, Vt., in 1794 A Blackleach Burritt married Sarah, sis Hills.
 A gravestone containing the name oI Timothy Hubbell, now standing in Low CT White Hills burying ground, was re moved from this old cemetery. He dieG February ye 11th, 1739-40, in ye 20tf year of his age, son of Capt Richard Hubbell, son of It John, son of Richard Hubbell, who emigrated from Wales tC America.
 Fanton Hill is said to have been nam. ed after man by the name of Fanton William probably, who owned land and may have lived near Eye old meeting house. in Ripton parish. The stones in this old burying ground were more num- erous, 50 years ago, than they are at this time; some of them standing on the high way. What became of them the writer does not know; perhaps removed to oth- CT graveyards. This burying ground, mo passer-by would notice. The few remain ing gravestones stand in the midst of overgrown cedars, etc., unenclOsed as a graveyard, known only to few of the old inhabitants and by them uncared for. -[James Beardsley Wheeler, Hunting ton, March 15, 1892.
 Fairfield county has another grange, Farmill River of Huntington1 organized March 17 by Deputy J. H. B1akeman of Oronoque, assisted by Past Master James Burr of Monroe and Brothers F. E. Blakeman and z. 0. Beard of Oron- oque. The new grange starts with 26 charter members, made up of some of the best men and women in the town and sure to be power for good.The officers:
 Master, E. L. Walker.
 Overseer, s. B. Brownson.
 Lecturer, Miss Lucy M. Beard.
 Steward P A ManonoI
 Assistant Steward, 0. H. Brownson. Chaplain, F. H. Wells.
 Treasurer. H. F, Glover.