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Cabot area Graveyards
In 1800, the town purchased an acre of land at the Centre for a burying-ground and enclosed it. This was the first graveyard in town. William Osgood, who died Feb. 5, 1801, was the first person buried in it. There are 92 graves discernible here.
A large number of them have headstones that were dug out of the ledge nearby and lettered, but they are hardly legible now. No burials have been made for 35 years. The last was that of Lieut. Fifield Lyford in 1846. To the credit of the town it has been kept enclosed by them, and tolerably clean, as also all of the other numerous small interment enclosures in town, where it is not done by individuals.
The next grave-yard was at the Lower Ville. In 1813, Elihu Coburn and Col. John Stone donated the original ground, 1 acre, each. Joseph Coburn was the first one buried in it. From time to time it has been enlarged. It has now about 329 inhabitants. It is a beautiful location, about 40 rods from the Winooski, whose musical waters as they pass seemingly a little more quiet by here, you may imagine chanting the requiem of the dead.
In 1814, a burying lot was opened on the farm now owned by Orson Kimball, just above the residence of E. T. Hopkins. 19 graves are discernible.
The West Hill burying-ground, a gift from David Lyford and John Edgerton, was laid out in 1817. When they were staking it out it was in the time of what is called by the old people the great sickness. Mr. Edgerton repeated the lines:
"Yelliving men come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie."
He was the first person buried there. The graves here number 84.
East Cabot grave-yard is a very pretty plot for the purpose, donated by George Rogers, Esq., for that part of the town. 38 persons occupy this place.
Cabot Plain grave-yard, the ground for which was donated by Alpheus Bartlett, in 1825. The first one buried in it was Alvira Covell. The interments in this yard are 39.
At South Cabot the grave-yard was donated by Moses Clark, in 1834, with the express understanding it was to be kept well fenced. Thirty-five have been interred here; the first a child of Moses Clark. It is now entirely abandoned.
Cabot Village grave-yard, 1/2 acre of land, donated by John W. Dana, was laid out in 1820. The first one buried in it, Eliza Dutton, died May 20, 1820, age 22. It has been enlarged to one acre, and contains about 217 graves. T. H. Lance opened a
New Cemetery adjoining this in 1865, which is private property, those interring herein buying family lots. The first grave here is that of Joseph Lance, October 12, 1865. There are 86 persons at this date buried here, July 5, 1881, and there are some very handsome monuments of marble and granite.
The town have built a tomb in the yard for public use. In 1854, the town purchased for $100 its first hearse.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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