Duck River Cemetery
41°18′40″N 72°19′39″W / 41.3110°N 72.3276°W
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
Notable people buried at the Duck River Cemetery include:
- Thomas R. Ball, Connecticut Congressman
- Elsie Ferguson, stage and film actress
- Ezra Lee, Colonial soldier, best known for commanding the Turtle submarine
- Peter Karter, recycling pioneer and nuclear engineer
- Roger Tory Peterson, naturalist, ornithologist, artist, educator, and a founder of the environmental movement
- Bessie Potter Vonnoh, sculptor
- Robert Vonnoh, American Impressionist painter
- Charles Chadwick, Author
- Matthew Griswold American Patriot, governor of CT
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Old Lyme Historical Society, [www.olhsi.org/documents/duck_river_cemetery1676-1735.pdf Duck River Cemetery 1676 - 1735]