Duck River Cemetery
(Redirected from Old Lyme Cemetery)
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The Duck River Cemetery, also known as the Old Lyme Cemetery is the communal burying ground of the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut.[1] The earliest surviving grave marker dates from 1676, Renold Marvin's gravestone.[2] A tidal stream known as the Duck River and a salt marsh bisect the burying ground.
Notable burials
[edit]Notable people buried at the Duck River Cemetery include:
- Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), Connecticut Congressman
- Charles Chadwick (1874–1953), author
- Elsie Ferguson (1885–1961), stage and film actress
- Matthew Griswold (1714–1799) American Patriot, state governor
- Peter Karter (1922–2010), recycling pioneer and nuclear engineer
- Ezra Lee (1749–1821), Colonial soldier, best known for commanding the Turtle submarine
- Roger Tory Peterson, naturalist, ornithologist, artist, educator, and a founder of the environmental movement
- Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872–1955), sculptor
- Robert Vonnoh (1858–1933), American Impressionist painter
References
[edit]- ^ Slater, James A. "The Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them". Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, vol. 21. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1987.[ISBN missing]
- ^ Old Lyme Historical Society, Duck River Cemetery 1676–1735 Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
