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THE GALES FERRY CEMETERY.
THE aim and object of this little book is to dissemi-nate
information and facts of interest to all persons,
whose parents, children, relatives, and friends have passed
away from earth, and whose mortal remains repose in that
sacred spot of ground known as the Gales Ferry Ceme-tery,
and to impress upon their minds, and upon the
minds of all present and future lot- owners, that there is
further opportunity for all- who! a r e so disposed, to aid in
protecting, repairing, and beautifying, in a proper man-ner,
in accordance with the wise laws of the State, a
place which possesses many advantages and conveniences
as a place of civilized and Christian burial.
Previous to A. D. 1833, the inhabitants of Gales Ferry
and vicinity buried their deceased friends in isolated
family grounds, which after a few generations are apt to
be neglected, or in the Niles' plot, a piece of stony and
uneven ground fenced by a very inferior wall, and desti-tute
of gates.
. About that time, a few prominent and public spirited
citizens secured by purchase of the Rev. Ralph Hurlbutt,
Esq., a deed of a small piece of level land, situated near
the Gales Ferry Church, and that original site, with three
additions made at sundry times, when urgent need de-manded,
together with improvements which have from
time to time been made, constitutes the plot now held
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and controlled by that legally incorporated body- politic,
The Gales Ferry Cemetery Association.
Previous to A. D. 1887, the affairs of the Cemetery
were managed in a kind of neighborly and informal manner,
each lot- owner acting independently, without particular re-gard
to the best interests of the Cemetery, and fences,
trees, and curbing were placed according to the tastes and
notions of lot owners, without due regard to the straight-ness
and width of aisles arid driveways.
During the latter part of A. D. 1886, the following
statement was prepared and circulated :
WHEREAS, We, the undersigned, know that the good
sense of common humanity suggests and demands that
the burial places of our friends should be protected and
held sacred; and whereas, the statute laws of the State
of Connecticut afford a plan for the proper care, super-vision,
and protection of all cemeteries within the State;
we, who are interested in the preservation of the Gales
Ferry Cemetery and desire to see the same properly kept
and cared for, believe that the lot- owners should avail
themselves of the benefits to be derived from the State
law — First: By organizing a Gales Ferry Cemetery
Association, with proper officers, to see that the walls be
kept in a proper condition, to cause the weeds, grass, and
briers ' to be annually removed, that the tombstones be
kept from tumbling down, and that all necessary work for
the care and best good of the cemetery be properly and
carefully done.
And, secondly, Knowing that a small fund, the
income of which should be carefully and judiciously
expended, is both necessary and desirable, we subscribe
the sums affixed to our names, the same to constitute a
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perpetual fund, which may be increased by future sub-scriptions
and bequests, to be deposited in a reliable
savings bank, or some other safe investment, the interest
only to be annually expended, by a treasurer properly ap-pointed
or chosen, in accordance with the statute law of
the State of Connecticut.
And, thirdly, We hereby agree to pay the sums
hereby subscribed to the Treasurer of the Gales Ferry
Cemetery Association, when the said Association shall be
properly incorporated and organized in accordance with
the State law.
The following is the subscription list up to present
date, July 22, 1890 :
S. B. Stoddard, $ 5° P. A. Chapman, 15
Mary Stoddard, 2S Flora L. Allyn, 5°
Bridget N. Hurlbutt, 6 0 Julia A. Adams, S
H. Larrabee, 25 S. Ashbel Crandall, 10
M. A. Larrabee, 2 0 Thos. Latham, s
Noyes B. Allyn, s° Ed. Lamb, 2
L. L. Amidon, 5 Mrs. Robt. Avery, 5
H. M. Fitch, 5 Mrs. D. Williams, 10
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The following is the act of incorporation :
GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
January Session, 1887.
[ H o u s e Joint Resolution, No. 18.]
INCORPORATING THE GALES FERRY CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION.
Resolved by this Assembly : SEC. I. That S. Billings
Stoddard, Christopher A. Brown, Charles A. Satterlee,
Thomas Latham, James A. Belden, John E. Perkins,
Solomon Perkins, George Hurlbutt, all of Ledyard, and
Noyes B. Allyn of Hartford, together with such other per-sons
as are or may be owners of burial lots in the ceme-tery
at Gales Ferry, in said town of Ledyard, and their
successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body
corporate and politic, under the name of The Gales Ferry
Cemetery Association, for the purpose of superintending,
caring for, and preserving said cemetery, and under said
name shall have power to hold real and personal estate
for the purposes of the corporation, to the amount of five
thousand dollars, and may exercise the powers enumer-ated
in section one of chapter three of the public acts of
1883, and other rights and powers belonging to corpora-tions.
SEC. 2. At all meetings of the corporation, only own-ers
of burial lots in the cemetery shall be entitled to vote,
and no person. shall have more than one vote. All the
owners of an interest in any of said lots, who are present
in person or by proxy, at any meeting of the corporation,
may cast the vote for such lot, acting by a majority of
persons.
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SEC. 3. The corporation shall have power to make
and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the
superintendence and preservation of the cemetery, and
may do all things proper for the care and ornamentation
of the same, and of any lots owned therein, and for pre-serving
the cemetery throughout in a neat, orderly, and
attractive condition.
SEC. 4. The first meeting of the corporation may be
called by any three of the persons named in section one,
by posting a notice at said cemetery, of the time and
place of holding such meeting, at least one week before
holding the same, and by such other notice as they shall
deem proper.
SEC. 5. At all meetings of said corporation, nine
votes shall constitute a quorum.
Approved, Feb. 25, 1887.
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CERTIFICATE.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
O F F I C E OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, Lev'erett M. Hubbard, Secretary of the State of
Connecticut, and keeper of the seal thereof, and of the
original record of the Acts and Resolutions of the General
Assembly of said State, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that I have
compared the annexed copy of the Resolution incor-porating
The Gales Ferry Cemetery Association, with the
original record of the same now remaining in this office,
and have found the said copy to be a correct transcript
thereof, and of the whole of said original.
And I further certify, that the said original record is
a public record of'the State of Connecticut, now remain-ing
in this office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand,
and affixed the seal of said State, at Hartford, this fourth
day of March, 1887.
[ 8 s.] LEV'ERETT M. HUBBARD,
Secretary of State.
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The first meeting of the Association, after the Act of
Incorporation, was held in the vestry of the Gales Ferry
M. E. Church, and the following officers were elected :
President— S. Billings Stoddard.
Secretary and Treasurer— Charles A. Satterlee.
Collector— Christopher A. Brown.
Superintendent— Charles A. Satterlee,
The foregoing officers were chosen in May, 1887, for
one year.
The second annual meeting was properly warned, and
held on May 12, 1888.
The following officers were elected :
President — S. Billings Stoddard.
Secretary and Treasurer — Chas. A. Satterlee.
/ Superintendent— James A. Belden.
Collector— C. A. Brown.
It was voted that the annual meeting of the associa-tion
be held on the second Saturday of each May at 2
o'clock, P. M., unless said day be stormy, in which case the
meeting shall be held at the same time and place on the
next fair Saturday following.
At the last annual meeting, in May, 1890, the last
named board of officers was unanimously re- elected.
The fund, which now amounts to a little over $ 300, is
deposited in a Norwich savings bank, and most of the in-terest
has been judiciously expended in much- needed
improvements. Any further donations will be promptly
acknowledged by the treasurer and judiciously invested,
according to the provisions of the act of incorporation.
LIST OF NAMES AND NUMBERS OF LOT- OWNERS IN THE
GALES FEE
No.
1 Stephen Hempstead.
2 Geo. A. Bailey.
3 Simeon A. Stoddard.
4 Avery Lester.
5 Stephen Perkins.
6 Frederic Ball.
7 Simeon A. Bailey.
8 Wm. Williams and Wm.
Clark,
g Charles Crandall,
10 Wm. Browning.
11 Guy C. Stoddard.
12 Elisha Niles.
13 Wm. Hempstead.
14 Ebenezer P. Miner.
15 Isaac Peckham.
16 Elisha A. Satterlee.
17 Daniel Williams.
18 Ralph Arthur.
19 Abel Bolles.
20 Wm. Newbury.
2 1 Ralph Hurlbutt.
22 Samuel Vincent.
23 Adam Larrabee.
24 Henry Comstock.
25 Francis A. Lester.
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No.
26 Austin M. Lester.
27 Ralph Hurlbutt.
28 Alexander Allyn.
29 Adam Larrabee.
30 Ichabod Chapman.
31 Elisha Perkins.
32 Joshua Geer.
33 Ralph Hurlbutt.
34 Christopher Allyn.
35 Ichabod Babcock.
36 Joseph Maynard.
37 Chas. Stoddard.
38 Paul F. Niles.
39 Thomas M. Latham.
40 Asaph Hurlbutt.
41 Ephraim Stoddard.
42 Wm. Lamb.
43 Cesar Babcock.
44 Wm. R. Brown.
45 Parsonage and John
Forsyth.
46 John D. Bradford.
47 Dudley B. Crandall.
48 Wm. Campbell.
49 Thomas Comstock.
50 John T. Meech.
No. '
51 Jonathan Stoddard.
52 Washington Avery.
53 Washington Avery.
No.
54 Mary Allyn.
55 James Adams.
56 Latham A. Brown.
NEW PART.
1 Nathaniel Newbury.
2 C. H. Stoddard.
3 Austin A. Lester.
4 S. Billings Stoddard.
5 Henry McCracken.
6 John G. Ball.
7 Jonathan Crandall.
8 Rosetta Stone.
9 John Hurlbutt.
10 Ralph Stoddard.
11 R. S. Stoddard.
12 Daniel Maujer.
13 Asa Allyn.
14 J. Chapman.
15 Henry Brooks.
16 Thomas Latham.
17 J. L. Christie.
18 Albertus Maynard.
19 D. W. Corn well.
20 T. A. Avery.
21 John E. Perkins.
22 Wm. E. Bracewell.
23 Ephraim Allyn.
24 Lucinda Lester.
25 J. S. Satterlee.
26 L. D. Perkins.
27 Ephraim Chapman.
28 Edmund Chapman.
29 Public Lot.
30 Robt. A. Avery.
31 Noah Chapman.
32 Noah Chapman.
33 Joseph S. Francis.
34 Daniel Clark.
35 Lyman Richards.
36 Nelson A. Maynard.
37 Edward Arents.
38 H. W. Lamb.
39 Harriet F. Crandall.
40 Richard R. Latimer.
41 Unsold.
42 Chas. Winchester.
43 Geo. W. Maynard.
44 Geo. W. Hurlbutt.
45 Isaac B. Bacon.
46 Latham A. Brown.
47 C. Allyn Brown.
48 Unsold.
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50 Chas. H. Fuller.
51 Geo. W. Hurlbutt.
52 Unsold.
No. No.
54 Unsold. 59 Unsold.
55 " 60 «
56 " 61
57 " 62 I!
58 " 63
The present price of lots is $ 10.50. For further
information address the Secretary, Chas. A. Satterlee,
Gales Ferry, Conn.
This fund should amount to at least one thousand
dollars to realize an income large enough to cover the
expenses necessary to keep the cemetery in good order.
This pamphlet is issued for the purpose of showing all
interested parties what has been done to secure such a
fund, and to satisfy them that in future years it will be
cared for in a lawful manner. And it is desirable that
those who wish to give to this fund will do so at as early
a date as convenient.
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