Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-03
EWET CITY

Miss Gladys Howard of New Haven, spent Friday evening and Saturday with her brother and grandparents, MT. and Mrs. Richard Howard, and Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Hedbert Hurst in Central Village. The introduction of D. L. Phillips historical graveyard records continue: The most important of the cemeteries of this class has always been known as the Hartshorne Bqrying ground. It is located about a mile north Of Bethel church and perhaps quarter of q mile east of the Pachaug- Bethel road. It is reached by a cart-path which leaves the road between the res-d dence of Marcha Osga and the old Hawkins house. An ancient man, many years ago, told this writer, l that he remembered when fifty or sixty graves could be counted i'll this i place and some of them were marked by marble stones bearing inscrip- l tions. Two names on these stones he remembered, Peter Hartshorne and Jonat>-n Hartshorn. Today the out i lines of only seven or eight graves marked by stones without inscriptions can with difficulty be made out,
 It is said that this lonely graveyard i had in early times the reputation of being haunted, and during the night 1 seaso tQe people of the e;ghborhoo0 avoided it. A laborer in those early days returning from his days work and hurrying to cross the bulying place before sundown, so the story goes. was greatly startled to catch glimpse over his shoulder. of a ghostIy figure moving toward him with desperation born of fear he wheeled where he stood, and struck with his hoe. such q mighty blow, that the hoe, although q. new one wal fatally shattered, but the ghost,
 which proved to be his own s44AQoA,
 escaped unharned.
 During the first half Of the nine
 teenth century. number of families
 fro Rhode Island settled in Griswold and revived the custom of burial in
 family cemeteries. Several of these
 cemeteries, after serving this purpose
 for one or two generations, were
 abandoned, and the bodies of those in
 tered there were removed to the Pa
 chaug cemetery. Three of these
 abandoned enclosures still remain
 on the farm now owned by Frank
 Terry the Dawleys were buried; on
 the farm now owned by Stanton F.
 Maine was the Reynolds burial ground
 and on the farm now owned by Jonn
 DesJardine was the burial place of | the lllIanyS. The aOd0uOneQ ydrd
 on the Frank Terry farm still cor
 tains a number of marked stones be-
 longing to the Dawleys, broken and
 fallen. These inscriptions have been
 copied and will be found among the
 Pachaug cemetery inscriptions, in
 which cemetery the remains Of the
 Dawley family now repose.
 The inscriptions on the monuments
 Of twenty-three cemeteries are tran
 scribed in this book. Thirty two of
 these cemeteries are located in Gris- wold and contain all the decipher-
 able inscriptions in town The in- , scriptions from St. Mary's cemetery
 Lisbon, are also included because of
 the great number of epitaphs of Gris-
 wold people buried here These twenty three cemeteries are so seat
 tered and some of them so secluded
 that few even of our lifelong resi-
 dents know where to find them all.
 Starting from the rairoad station
 in JeWett City and travelling in the
 most direct way, a circuit Of fifty
 miles is covered in order to visit al
 these cemeteries and return. Some o.
 them are not approached closely by
 the highways and several of them car E only be reached by cartpaths, 1T
 places forcing a way through thick
 cts and underbrush for considerable Q distances. IraVollnS Dy the pes ;, methods, whole day will be con c sumed to enable one to touch them all $ In transcribing inscriptions man. s of the old stones are found blurred b. time, so that they are partly or whol . ly iIlegible. In some cases the ston q itself is destroyed beyond repair; bu d general careful and painstaking treat e ment brings ou. the inscription 50 tha Q it may be read. Long observation ha q shown an occasional disappearance o " inscribed stones and a gradual deca a in others. Making it plain that soon
 CT or later both inscriptions an 'r stoneS to a certain extent will dis n n appear and that some of the sma # and secluded cemeteries will be en l. tirely lost.
 r. So it has seemed good to publis IS in this book the inscriptions down .S .f1 the dates herein indicated. Great car .y has been taken to have the inscriptio le perfect copies of the originals l. capitalization, in word. in spelling. !; punctuation and without abbreviatio1 al For the sake of clearness the ancier = 5 so much like the letter F foun k frequently in. the older inscriptions or not reproduced. Cuts of these cem Id eteries have also been added so tha s;; succeeding generations know how the 1e looked in 1918. Four copies of thi to book only will be issued. One will |
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