Title:
Volunteers search to save all-but-forgotten cemeteries
Author:
Dorsey, Kristina
Subjects:
East Lyme Historic Cemetery Commission
Historic cemetery preservation
Historic cemetery preservation
Object ID:
scr-030-065
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Pubication Date:
01/23/1991
Collection:
Indian and Colonial Scrapbook
Summary:
This article is about an origanization known as the East Lyme Historic Cemetery Commission. The main purpose of the organization is to preserve cemeteries from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesmany of which are quite small. The article mentions several of these cemeteries and the stories behind them. One of those cemeteries is located outside of a "pest house" and is mainly a burial site for those who died of infectious diseases. Some of the cemeteries mentioned in records have not been located due to insufficient descriptions. The organization is working to preserve the cemeteries mainly to help people find their ancestors.
People:
Murphy, Betty
Hardy, Rose Anne
Chendali, Olive Tubbs
Hardy, Rose Anne
Chendali, Olive Tubbs
Search Terms:
East Lyme Historic Cemetery Commission
Sessa Lane
Interstate-95
Route 1
Upper Pattagansett Road
Boston Post Road
Works Progress Administration
Head of River Cemetery
Niantic River
Pancake House
Plants Dam Cemetery
Sessa Lane
Interstate-95
Route 1
Upper Pattagansett Road
Boston Post Road
Works Progress Administration
Head of River Cemetery
Niantic River
Pancake House
Plants Dam Cemetery