Taunton Cemetery
Newtown, Connecticut
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Taunton Cemetery, located on Taunton Lake Road in Newtown, Connecticut, has burials dating to the late 1700s. It is a small cemetery, with the majority of the monuments dating from the 1800s.
Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 292.
Photos were taken 25 August 2019.
One of the oldest stones in the cemetery:
"In Memory of Mrs. Jerusha Baldwin
Relict to Caleb Baldwin Esq.
who departed this Life July 15th, 1788
in the 66 Year of her Age."
A trio of older stones from the 1830s and 1840s.
Memorial for George B. Andrews, born March 23, 1888, died September 16, 1888.
"Emma Irene Fairchild
Born Jan. 1, 1881
Died Aug. 3, 1881
Dying is but going home.
Our baby."
"Althea Ruth Miller,
Born Sept. 7. 1903,
Died Apr. 11, 1904,
Age 7 mos., 4 days.
We trust our loss will
be her gain,
And with Christ she's
gone to reign."
"Eugene Preston Miller
Born Mar. 6, 1906,
Died Jan. 19, 1907,
Age 10 mos., 14 days.
No pain, no grief, no anxious fear
Can reach our loved ones
sleeping here."
View of the cemetery from across Taunton Lake Road.
All photos copyright by the author, 2019. Not to be used or reproduced without permission.
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