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Hillside Cemetery:
Originally known as the Sharon Burying Ground, the Hillside
Cemetery has been Sharon's primary place of burial since December
11, 1739. On that day, the town fathers met at the home of
Nathaniel Skinner to decide about essential elements of a
growing, thriving town. They concluded that designing and
creating a burial ground was one of those essentials. Nathaniel
Skinner and Lew Jabez (Habezz) were asked to locate an appropriate
site. They found the first part of what has become the Hillside
Cemetery, a good name for the site, as it looks out from a
hillside across the west and north of the town. The earliest
burials are near the upper entrance gate. Read Full
History of Hillside Cemetery.
Hillside Cemetery Headstones in Sharon, CT:
This list of inscriptions was copied in 1934,
under the auspices of the F.E.R.A. and the W.P.A. sponsored
by the Connecticut State Library. It was compiled under the
supervision of Charles R. Hale and Mary H. Babin.
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