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41.	Flood of 1955	Floods--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1955; Floods--Seaside Park; Floods; Parks--Connecticut--Bridgeport; Seaside Park--1955	1955 Aug.	This scene of the 1955 flood at Seaside Park in Bridgeport shows men walking through a water damaged park street littered with tree limbs and debris. Cars are parked haphazardly. Waves from Long Island...

42.	Frank LeGeyt and His Meat Cart	Avon (Conn.) -- History -- 19th century; Butchers -- Avon (Conn.)	Circa 1880 - 1910	The LeGeyts were butchers and farmers in Avon and neighbors of Photographer Clinton Hadsell. John LeGeyt was a butcher in Hartford per 1860 census. Son John Edwin was a butcher/farmer in 1880 Census for...

43.	Gablehurst- Rear and Stable	Architecture--Connecticut--Guilford; Dwellings--Connecticut--Guilford; Guilford (Conn.); Guilford (Conn.) Buildings, structures, etc.		Stable and water tower on left, granite stone dwelling on right. Gablehurst was built ca 1859 by Rev. E. Edwin Hall for his wife, a native of Switzerland. Subsequent owners added modern amenities as they...

44.	Gravestone - Hart, John, Capt.	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Capt., Hart, John	1987	Capt. John Hart, the son of John Hart and Sarah, surname unknown, was the 3d generation of Harts in America, This John was the only one of the family to survive when a fire broke out in the Hart homestead...

45.	Gravestone - Bull, Sarah	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Bull, Sarah	1987	Sarah Bull, wife of David, Bull who moved from Farmington to Westfield MA was the daughter of Capt. John Ashley and his wife Sarah Dewey, both of Westfield.The stone shows a light-bulb shaped winged death’s...

46.	Gravestone - Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice	1987	Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice, 1749-1802. Lt. Gideon Cowles fought in the Revolution with the New York State Militia. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Westchester NY in 1777. He may have lived...

47.	Gravestone - Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice	1987	Cowles, Gideon, Lt.; Cowles, Eunice, 1749-1802. Lt. Gideon Cowles fought in the Revolution with the New York State Militia. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Westchester NY in 1777. He may have lived...

48.	Gravestone - Cowles, Hariot	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Hariot	1987	Cowles, Hariot, 1790-1808. This gravestone includes motifs from the past as well as more contemporary symbols. It has a rounded tympanum with shoulders as did many of the 18th century stones, and has a...

49.	Gravestone - Cowles, Martha	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Martha	1987	Cowles, Martha, 1691-1768. “Relict” or widow of Thomas Cowles, Martha was the daughter of Capt. Thomas and Sarah (Freeman) Judd of Waterbury. Martha Cowles’ stone is most unusual, with an effigy...

50.	Gravestone - Gleason, Mary	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Gleason, Mary	1987	Gleason, Mary, 1740-1808. Mary Gleason’s gravestone grounds itself firmly in the 19th century with architectural symbols, an inscription that shows her importance to her family rather than concern for...
51.	Gravestone - Hart, Esther	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Hart, Esther	1987	Esther’s stone is quite similar to her daughter’s (Hart, Ruth) with the heart outline, the same angel or cherub face, but with a crown of only three round balls. Again, the vine of life surrounds the...

52.	Gravestone - Hart, Mary	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Hart, Mary	1987	Mary Hart was the daughter of Isaac and Sarah Moore, thus was of the second generation in America. Her father Isaac Moore came on the Increase as a servant of Mathew Marvin in 1635, possibly paying for...

53.	Gravestone - Hart, Ruth	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Hart Ruth	1987	Ruth’s epitaph is carved within a heart-shaped outline. The head, angel or cherub, shows a benign face with closed eyes and large wings. It has a crown of five round balls. The stone hasa typical arched...

54.	Gravestone - Hooker, William	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Hooker, William	1987	William was the son of Samuel and Mehitable (Hamlin) Hooker and was a great-grandson of Hartford founder, the Rev. Thomas Hooker. William had four wives, the first two, Lydia Woodward and Anna Steele,...

55.	Gravestone - Mather, Thomas, Dr.	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Dr., Mather, Thomas	1987	Mather was one of a small class of professional men in Farmington in the mid-18th c. He was the son of Joshua and probably Hannah______, married Huldah Bull (daughter of Jonathan, born April 26, 1743)...

56.	Gravestone - Thompson, Eben	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Thompson, Eben	1987	Ebenezer, Thompson, 1755-1843. Ebenezer, Thompsonson of Samuel, has a plain rectangular stone with slightly curved top. On the stone, within a square border, is carved only his name, death date and age...

57.	Gravestone - Watson, Mary	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Watson, Mary	1987	There is no epitaph on the stone, just her name and death date and a simple quadrefoil near the top of the rectangular stone. The stone is rough, perhaps done by a family member or someone in the village,...

58.	Gravestone - Whitman, Samuel, Rev.	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Whitman, Rev. Samuel	1987	Whitman, Rev. Samuel, 1676-1751. After a long vacancy in the position, the Rev. Samuel Whitman, a graduate of Harvard College, 1696, became the third minister of the Farmington Church in 1706. The town...

59.	Gravestone - Woodruff, Susanah	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington; Woodruff, Susanah	1987	Woodruff, Susanah, 1728-1748. Susanah was the eldest child of Mathew and Susannah (North) Woodruff, born 20th April, 1729, died April 21, 1748, unmarried. Susanah’s stone is interesting in that it combines...

60.	Gravestone -Cowles, James, Lt.	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, James, Lt.	1987	Cowles, James, Lt., 1723-1789. James was the son of Capt. Isaac Cowles and his third wife Elizabeth Smith. He was appointed Lt. in the 1st Co. Train Band of 15th CT. Militia. His first wife was Abigail...

61.	Gravestone -Cowles, Sarah	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Sarah	1987	Cowles, Sarah, 1746-1793. Sarah’s stone shows yet another variation in the panoply of death’s heads visible in the old cemetery. Face and wings are similar to no. 409 and 444, but with pronounced differences...

62.	Gravestone -Cowles, Susannah	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Cowles, Susannah	1987	Cowles, Susannah, 1731-1796 was the wife of Lt. Amos Cowles, a Farmington merchant, and the daughter of Thomas and Thankful (Butler) Bull of West Hartford. Resembling somewhat the stone for Lt. James Cowles,...

63.	Gravestone -Curtiss, Peter, Major, Blacksmith	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Curtiss, Peter, Major, blacksmith	1987	Curtiss, Peter, 1740-1797. Neither Major Peter Curtis nor his wife Ruth are listed in Barbour’s Vital Records. According to Prentice, who quotes Egbert Cowles, Major Curtiss fought in the Revolution,...

64.	Gravestone -Porter, Eunice	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Porter, Eunice	1987	Porter, Eunice, 1753-1755. Eunice, was the second daughter of Elijah and Thankful Porter and the third to die at a very young age. She was undoubtedly named for her sister who died four year earlier.The...

65.	Gravestone -Porter, Eunice	Sepulchral monuments--Connecticut--Farmington;Porter, Eunice	1987	Eunice, was the second daughter of Elijah and Thankful Porter and the third to die at a very young age. She was undoubtedly named for her sister who died four year earlier.The stone for Eunice who died...