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Cemeteries in Cornwall

1)  The Calhoun Cemetery (on Route 7 opposite Route 45) was established in 1773 for the Puffingham settlement of the town. General Heman Swift—commander in the Revolutionary War and Cornwall’s foremost man of the time—lies there.

 2)  St. Bridget’s Cemetery in Sharon, west of Cornwall Bridge (River Road, north side of Routes 4 and 7). Founded in 1883, it was laid out in a rare and graceful concentric design.

 3)  The Cornwall Cemetery (above the village on Route 4) was originally one acre. Its earliest stone (1763) belongs to William Tanner, and several pupils of the Foreign Mission School, as well as other major players in that story (1817–1826), are buried there. (The stone receiving vault was built in 1921.)

 4)  The Cornwall Hollow Cemetery (on Hautboy Hill by Route 43, opposite the Sedgwick monument), the fifth to be opened, dates from 1793 and contains the graves of Major General John Sedgwick and other prominent members of the family.

 5)  The North Cornwall Cemetery (southern end of Rattlesnake Road), whose first stone is 1808, holds 68 Harts, 49 Rogers, 41 Scovilles, and 18 Golds.

 6)  The Smallpox Cemetery (fenced, in the open field on Coggswell Road west of the North Cornwall Church), a few graves from 1777 to 1801.

 7)  The Allen Cemetery (on Route 125, 200 feet up the old wood road opposite Dibble Hill Road) is the oldest in the town, with an obelisk and plaque to Cornwall pioneers. Graves (no longer visible) date from 1739 to 1762. (Ethan’s father, Joseph, is the only Allen buried there.)

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