Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-11
.COLCHEs sTER


 wich was a visitor here Monday Ronald K. Brown returned to New York Sunday evening after a three weeks vacation at his summer home on Broad- way.
 The registrars of voters were in ses- sion Tuesday to receive the names of l those who are eligible to be put on the list Ito be made"
 The Cohen Brothers are tearing out the partitions in the rooms over their skirt factory on Norwich avenue and will law new floors. They will use the room for their manufacturing as they are pressed for room on the first floor | Barnet Kahn returned Sunday from two weeks trip with relatives in New 1 York.
 James R. Case of Danbury was the guest of relatives in town over Sun day.
 Jesse Bailey of Hartford was at his home on South Main street oyer Sun Cayton D. Barton and brother of East Hampton, were visitors in town Monday. Daniel Weinstein motored to Hart ford Tuesday.
 Irving Jones of Lebanon was a caller here Monday.
 l daughter in Cromwell this week. Daniel M, OBrien has resigned his po- sltlon as chauffeur of the Columbia Kid Kurley Co.,, and has gone to New Brota in where he has rescured work. Miss E1izabeth-Day and Miss Alice Kemp have returned from a visit with Miss Days sister in Stamford. John Willis of Millington was a caller l in town Tupesday.
 The following letter was received and real at the town meeting from Attornev Edward M. Day of Hartford, a native of l this place:
 l To the Electors of the Town of Colches- ter assembled in their Annual Town Meeting:
 I For some time have had in mind, with ] your permission, improving the general condition of the old burial ground behind Bacon academy. In this old burk1 ground are buried the forefathers of this village l-the men who laid Nit out, developed it and did the hard work of opening roads and preparing it for settlement. Here lie also the ancestors of many men who nave become distinguished in Connection, and in other states of the union Here i. buried also Pierpont Bacon. who gave tC
 the First society of this town the acade my which has done so much for many O us in the past and is doing so much fol the people of Colchester today.
 It seems to me that we rather owe 1 to the memory of these early settleSs t, ! keep in fairly good condition their las , l resting place. It is a good thing to d, not only for the effect upon those of II who live in the village now but especialf for the effect that it would have upol
 people who come here once in a whil and whose ancestors formerly lived here : Section 3045 of the general statutes pro vides that an old burial ground of thi : kind shall be cared for by the selectmel of the. town, and authorizes the expendi ture for such purpose of not more tha. VI S100 in any one year.
 { To erect some new. fences. to straiehte s up to some extent some of the old stones . to trim up the trees and generally t
 clear it up and fix it up would entail tn T expenditure of perhaps quite a substantia y sum of money. Very likely if this wer
 done once thoroughly, it would be easie
 to keep the burial ground in better con dltlon. and think very likely we woul : then have more interest in doing it. Som . time next year, unless something unfore ? seen happens, l would be willing to fur nish the money for this improvement c this old burial ground. and undertak,
 with some little assistance from one c s two others in the way of supervision, { :. do this work. I feel that it is an under | taking that we really owe to the memor = Of our forefathers and the founders ( e this village, and it is a pleasure for m : to make this offer. In view Of the fat :. that the care of an old burial ground lfk
 this is in the hands Of the town, it ot
 cured to me that it would be advisab ' and more satisfactory to me if you pas ,p ed some kind of a vote agreeing to tn , undertaking on my part. IF A vote was taken at the meeting an .I the following resolution passed that, II Edward M. Day signifies his wish
 agreeable to the town. to clear up u
 yard of the Old cemetery. so-called, | pr eated in the rear of Bacon academy, tri r fence, that the town accept the genero, ol offer of Mir. Day and grant him permi -- sion to carry out his proposed pIans s.l The cemetery referred to was given IS the town of Colchester by deed by ol
 town as burial ground, and describ, rs as 9 piece of land located on the mort $. east corner of my faCm anG bounded idd a fence on the same line as it now stand d. While this possibly was not the fir
 burial ground in Colchester, traditit t-1 says the first burial was made on t VI. place now occupied by Mrs. Ha11lilt, Wallis, on which farm the first chur, \. was built. Burials in the old cemete n-1 were made previous to TIT about 17a dsl Here lie many of the earliest settler
 Including the original nroprietors of t Iaa town. AmoIs them was the first toy s clerk Of the town the first minister of | la town. De Watrous. a surgeon in t " Revolutionary war, also the man Who W