Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-12
EsNETT CITY

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 JENETT CITY Daniel L. Phillips has compiled. and caused four copies to be published. of a book which for local interest and information stands in a class by itself. The volume, which: is elegantly bound in pigskin, contains nearly. 400 pages of carefully arranged facts. and data, in the collection of which the author title of the volume is Griswold Ceme- teries; Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Twenty two Burial Places in GrisWold. Conn, and St. Mary's in Lisbon, with copies of all the inscrip- tions on their monuments. illustrated by cuts and maps.
 Beginning with Rixtown, which ie the oldest, the others are presented to the readers in order as relative to burying ground, Geer burying ground, Cook cemetery, Spy Rock cemetery, burying ground, Leonard < cemetery, Walton burial ground, Hatch :. burial ground, Spencer burial ground. Jewett City elower) cemetery, High Banks burial place, Phillips burial ground, Green burial ground. Jewett City Bap- tist cemetery, Clark Saunders yburying ground, Davis burial ground. Billings burial ground, Wilcox burial ground. etery.
 Preceding the lists of epitaphs, dates and inscriptions of each ceme- tery there is a full page cut printed from plates made from. photographs by Don Houghton of Norwich. \ h all the town of Griswold ! inciud- ing St. Mary's in Lisbon, there are as near as can be reckoned as the result of an exhaustive search {, 3,2z5 graves
 The book contains many special in- teresting features. second. to none Of which is the. characteristic story and short historical sketch relative to each one by the author, who, being a stu dent of Griswold's history for wears, is equipped with the material to a degree excelled by none.
 The compilation Of this great list of dates and the strict adherence to the minutest details in reference .ot the hundreds of inscriptions mad ancient epitaphs makes this book a work to be studied and admired. +
 A comprehensive index enables one to come at the object of his search at once. Then every infcrmat ton possible relative to the known buried, dead is available without needless conpled- ties
 A few Introductory facts show that Rixtown has 3S6 graves; on the mon stones with no inscriptions. The oid- est date Is 1724.
 Pachaug has over 1000 inscriptions. 225 with none, oldest 17z6.
 Brown has 1855 marked by field besides those which are engraved.
 Geer, 9s graves bearing inscriptions and A with none.
 Cook. 51 graves with inscriptions.
 Spy Rock has. 50 .graves.s 5 with fn- scriptions, oldest 1734: in this cere- tery rests the remains of Winter Green.
 The Kinne .buryinS ground Is near the American Thread con1pany's plant in Glasgo. In it is buried Isaac Giasko The stone reads came here in 1769.
 Knoxville has 250 graves. fl with inscriptions: the. oldest Is 174s.
 Leonard. 25o graves, 90 with ir- scriptions.
 Walton-There are 30 graves made ont. -faarked with r7,de stones. s
 At High Banks there are ss graves
 Tn the Wilcox ground there is but one grave. .is-%
 Jewett City. lower-There are ss4 WlEu l1SC%-sDI1OtiS dtl0 -htS oldast IS 1914
 frnillips-s graves. 4 with no mark.
 Green-24 with inscriptions and .s
 Jewett city Baptist contains 155 graves with i~s"riptions and 14s without: oldest 1885.
 Clark Saunders-21 graves.
 Davis-12 graves.
 St Mary's has sso graves with in- scri-+sans: no atter1pt h.si11g made tt nr- the hundreds without.
 St Tho11as has 50 with in~crintions with-c nstin1e$e even. 3 s to the others TrA disnosit'on ef tia foHr conies nnblisaed is that Mir. Phillips retains one al his horne, e3en to the resAar rel ! of all who wish The other three have heAn nlaced as fo1lows;. One in tht Otis l1sorarv oe No-~ich,s one iu the state library at Farttord md the last goes to the New Lordon County His i to-ieal socfe4v. at New London. ot which the author is q member. 1 Names Of donors to be added to the slater Library fund include; Robert 2 1 Johnson, Philip A. Johnson, ChapulaI & Fripp, DearnleY, & Clarke, Mrs. A M Clarke, F. H. Clement. the. society c Jean D'Arc,- Finn Eros, Edmund do doin, Horace Dawley, Havens 6 Son William Magel, Fred Menard, " lillian Johnston, Albert Saund ders, sA.+A. Ben. nett. Wilfred Laliberte, Adelard Men ard. Merton Bugbee, George $. Brown l Norman Parkhurst. Frank Waeos and Wallace H. Payne are the Com 1 mittees of arrangements for tho an 1 nual Masonic Ladies' night of Mt. Yer non lodge. No. 75. F. and A. NJ. 1 John H. Tracy is in Mount Vernon l N. Y, where he was summoned on ac l count of the death of his niece, Mrs Ruth Miller Cavert. HeS will atten, the funeral there this (Thursday). MrE | Cavert was the daughter of Mrs. Mar. Knight Miller, formerly of Jewett City She is survived by her h.s,oaaI and q,
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 Wednesday morning the mercur stood at 10 degrees above zero. SWiil 4 the air full of yapor.s The trees an \ shubbery were transformed into seen cry of rare splendor. Seen at the righ angle, each frost t-encrosted stuhbl I shone like prism with some color 0 the rainbow in the sparkling. .sI Iookin; i: down the railroad the hundreds o span. wires on the electric eduipmen iI~0 ~~ WN n ~NA3