Container List Record
Metadata
Object ID number |
2013.04.164 |
Container |
Box 6 |
Description |
Historic Resources Inventory, completed in 2006, states God's Acre is the oldest burying ground in South Windsor, dating from 1708 and it has more graves of colonial veterans than any other cemetery in Connecticut. The memorial gateway was donated by the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames in 1929. The Rev. and Mrs. Timothy Edwards are buried beneath a rare table monument. Two obelisks date from the 1820s. "Identified carvers, who left their mark up and down the River Valley, included two native sons, Ebenezer Drake and Thatcher Lathrop. "The first and second meeting houses were located adjacent to this cemetery before the present church was constructed in 1845, further south along the street." Copy included. |