First Church Cemetery

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First Church Cemetery Association of

East Haddam, Connecticut, Incorporated

incorporated September 23, 1937

 

Cemetery 3The land was a gift to First Ecclesiastical Society of East Haddam, Connecticut by Captain Samuel Gates (1716-1788) for a new Meetinghouse and cemetery.  Gates was the first burial.

Connecticut National Register of Historic Places District PlaqueLittle Haddam Historic District: a National Register of Historic Places District

Venture Smith Gravesite: Connecticut Freedom Trail

Venture Smith headstone 1, reduced

Photo by © David C. Nelson, used with permission

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Dr. Karl P. Stofko, President and Superintendent
David C. Nelson, Treasurer
Andrea Pascal, Secretary

Cemetery@FirstChurchEH.org

Please direct all requests for burial plot purchases, and historical and genealogical research to our Cemetery Association President and Superintendent, and Municipal Historian, Dr. Karl Stofko directly at 860-873-9375.

Virtually all of First Church Cemetery burials are now listed on FindAGrave.com (over 1,100), with slightly more than half of the listings now with photographs.

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