Ye Burying Yard
Ye Burying
Yard
Ridgefield's
Oldest Cemetery
Restored 1988
maintained by
The Caudatowa Garden Club
&
Parks & Recreation Dept.
The Burying Yard contains a monument listing 40 people who were buried in this cemetery between 1708 and about 1760. No original stones still stand.
Inscribed on the stone monument in the Burying Yard:
Ye burying Yard. Lay'd out ye Nov. 25. 1708
by the first Settlers of the Town of Ridgefield.
Samuel Keeler • Sarah Keeler • Annie Benedict • Uzziell Hyatt • John Sturdevant • Ruth Keeler • Rebecka Sherwood • Thankfull Burt • Richard Osburn • Sarah Osburn • Abigail Saintjohn • Sarah Smith • Abigail Wood • Daniel Whittamore • Hannah Keeler • Daniel Olmstead • Elisabeth Northrup • Nathan Smith • James Bennett • Henry Whitne • John Osburn • Abraham Whitlock • William Ventrum • Jonathan Rockwell • Abigail Rockwell • Sarah Saintjohn • Mary Smith • John Nichols • Mary Cates • William Northrup • Abigail Lowder • Mary Rockwell • Rebeckah Rockwell • James Osburn • Mary Rockwell • Jeremiah Benedict • Capt. Matthew Benedict • John Benedict
An Unknown British Soldier Killed At The Battle Of Ridgefield
Erected by the Village Improvement Committee
In the Year 1931
Marker is at the intersection of East Wilton Road and Creamery Road, on the right when traveling east on East Wilton Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
