Central Burying Grounds
Also known as Centerville Cemetery
Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
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Hamden, Connecticut 06518 United StatesCoordinates: 41.39030, -72.89610 - Cemetery ID:
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Originally the private cemetery of the Goodyear family, the burial ground at Centreville was called by the warranty deed of Miles Goodyear in 1896 the "Central Burying Gound." The parties were probably the earliest family to build a home in Centreville, and it was one of them, Hannah, wife of Benjamin, who was the first to be buried in this cemetery, in 1767. Her husband stone says (leaving the reader frustrated with curiosity), "He was crushed to death in an instant, Aug. 29, 1776, age 60."
Thomas Pardee and his wife Lois, both aged 77, died in 1802. The inscription on the stone of Jason Bradley, who died in 1768, age 60, is disappointingly impersonal, and a public warning rather than an epitaph: "kind reader, prepare for the important hour of death."
Captain Samuel Atwater 's wife Sarah, and Jacob Atwater 's wife Miriam, lived respectively seventy-nine and seventy-one years, but in all that time made no greater impression as individuals than to be designated on their gravestones as only the "consorts" of their husbands.
Timothy and Ruth Goodyear suffered A dreadful loss in 1773, as a triple sandstone slab testifies. Within the space of one month their three children died (aged 11, 9, and 4), victims of the awful scourge of smallpox in that year.
The cemetery is enclosed by a white picket fence. A habit of New Englanders is the building of picket fences around their dooryards, like embracing arms flung protectively about the homes they love. Here, in like manner, such a boundary mark shuts out the heedless world from the hallowed square which is the last earthly home of departed dear ones. Little Evergreen trees stand here and there among the graves, straight, and stiffly at attention as though on Sentinel guard.
-Hartley, R. M. (1943). The hisory of Hamden Connecicit 1786-1936. New Haven, CT: Quinnipiack Press.
Originally the private cemetery of the Goodyear family, the burial ground at Centreville was called by the warranty deed of Miles Goodyear in 1896 the "Central Burying Gound." The parties were probably the earliest family to build a home in Centreville, and it was one of them, Hannah, wife of Benjamin, who was the first to be buried in this cemetery, in 1767. Her husband stone says (leaving the reader frustrated with curiosity), "He was crushed to death in an instant, Aug. 29, 1776, age 60."
Thomas Pardee and his wife Lois, both aged 77, died in 1802. The inscription on the stone of Jason Bradley, who died in 1768, age 60, is disappointingly impersonal, and a public warning rather than an epitaph: "kind reader, prepare for the important hour of death."
Captain Samuel Atwater 's wife Sarah, and Jacob Atwater 's wife Miriam, lived respectively seventy-nine and seventy-one years, but in all that time made no greater impression as individuals than to be designated on their gravestones as only the "consorts" of their husbands.
Timothy and Ruth Goodyear suffered A dreadful loss in 1773, as a triple sandstone slab testifies. Within the space of one month their three children died (aged 11, 9, and 4), victims of the awful scourge of smallpox in that year.
The cemetery is enclosed by a white picket fence. A habit of New Englanders is the building of picket fences around their dooryards, like embracing arms flung protectively about the homes they love. Here, in like manner, such a boundary mark shuts out the heedless world from the hallowed square which is the last earthly home of departed dear ones. Little Evergreen trees stand here and there among the graves, straight, and stiffly at attention as though on Sentinel guard.
-Hartley, R. M. (1943). The hisory of Hamden Connecicit 1786-1936. New Haven, CT: Quinnipiack Press.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 103268
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