Below I have listed the town where the graves are located and then the inscription on the gravestone....SOME of the stones have more than what is shown here, if any ancestors listed, ask for the specific name and I will check and see if there is more information. All the counties listed below are part of the Connecticut River Valley area (counties bordering the Connecticut River) which means these folks may have been your ancestors migrated from Conn or Mass. Hinsdale,NH: " Mem. Mor. Rev'd Bunker Gay Obiit. Oct 20 A.D. 1815 AEtatis 80 " - -------------------------------------------- Peterborough, NH: " James Richey, 1806, age 51" - -------------------------------------------------- Hinsdale, NH: " Mary Ann Wright, 1808, age 1 year " - -------------------------------------------------------------- Windham, Vermont " The Rev. Nathan Noyes, 1808. " - --------------------------------------------------------------- Hinsdale, NH: " Anna Eveans, 1809, age 24 " - -------------------------------------------------------------- Vernon, VT: " Dill Elmer, died Jan. 11,1804 AEt 67 " - ----------------------------------------------------------------- West Brattleboro,VT: " Rhoda Nash who died Nov 26,1813, AE 23 years" - --------------------------------------- Westmoreland, ( Cheshire Co.) NH: " Infant son of Timothy Hoskins, Jr. 1813 - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Grafton (Windham Co.) Vermont " Memory of Mr. Ebenzer Tinney who died March 12,1813, aged 81 years" "my virtue liv's beyond the grave. My glass is rum" made by: A.Wright & A. Burditt of Bellows Falls. AD 1813 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Claremont, Sullivan Co., NH: (putting all of it on as it states what occured) " In memory of Chester and Elisha Putnam, sons of the late Capt Solomon Putnam, who on the morning of January 29th 1814 in the same bed were found suffocated. A kettle of common coals having been placed in their room for comfort proved the fatal instrument of their deaths. the former in the 27th and the latter in the 19th year of his age." - ----------------------------------------- Weathersfield, Windsor Co., Vermont " For a shoe-mender, 1815.......here lies a mender of the Sole, whose like you will not find pole to pole. By every honest means he got his awl, and happy could he live tho' in a stall; his end he answer'd in this life that's past and now lets hope he's happy at the last. " - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chesterfield, Cheshire co.,NH " Dr. George Farrington, 1816, age 47" - ------------------------------------------------------------- Keene, Cheshire Co., NH " Leverett Kimball, 1826, age 18 months... With anxious care each art was tried the lovely flower to save. But all in vain--the shaft of death consigned it to the grave" - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vernon, (Windham Co.) Vermont " Ebenezer Scott, 1826, age 83......... The first white male born in Bernardston, Mass. was taken with his mother and two brothers by the Indians, carried to Quebec, sold to the French when he was 8 years old. Returned to his father. Served in the Revolution-drew a pension." - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Bradford, Orange Co., Vermont " Mary S. Hoyt, 1836....... she lived-what more then can be said; she died--we all know she's dead" - ---------------------------------------------- Putney, Windham Co., Vt " Albert Fuller, 1838, age 16 ".......his death was occasioned by an accidental blasst of powder on July 4th." - ---------------------------------------------------------- Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT " Experiance, relict of Samuel Wellington.died Dec 17,1838, AE 69. Her first husband was Elias Bemis" - ---------------------------------------------------------- New Ipswich (located in Hillsboro Co on the border of Cheshire Co.), NH " Mr Gilman Spaulding was kill'd with an axe by an insane brother, Sept 19,1842. Aet 38" - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------- Putney, Windham Co.,Vt " Charles Henry Gilson, son of Xenophon & Mary Gilson, died April 18,1845, AE 6 years, 3 months, 20 ds. He was instantly killed by a stagecoach passing over him" - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------- Ryegate, Orange Co.,VT " In memory of Alden Work. He died July 1st in the 80th year of the American era. He was active, honest, and successful merchant, and a firm Demcratic representative in the legislature of Vermont. He died as he lived--happy " - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------- Cynthia Moderator of : Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com CTHartfo-L@rootsweb.com