East Cemetery (Litchfield, Connecticut)
East Cemetery is a cemetery in Litchfield, Connecticut. It has also been known as East Burying Ground.[1]
In 1754, a committee was chosen to lay out a burying ground and the layout was recorded in town property records in January 1755.[1]
Notable interrments
- John Allen
- Charles B. Andrews
- Uriel Holmes
- John Henry Hubbard
- Edward W. Seymour
- Benjamin Tallmadge
- Frederick A. Tallmadge
- Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
- Henry W. Wessells
- John Whedon
- Oliver Wolcott, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation
- George Catlin Woodruff
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