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Munson Cemetery Inscriptions
Colchester, Vermont

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The cemetery is located on US Routes 2 & 7 just South of the intersection with Vt 127 at Colchester Village.  It is a Town Cemetery in good condition and well maintained.  The earliest burial dated recorded was in 1802 and the most recent in 1975.  It is an old cemetery with the majority of the burials prior to 1860. Recorded during Jyly 1976 by James M. Cutler, jmcutler@hotmail.com,.

Numbers were assigned as recorded for reference purposes.   They do not refer to any cemetery plot plan.
 

Row 1 Numbers 3 thru 18

1. Jeremiah L son of 
Luman & Marion Cary
died Feb 15, 1857 age 11 mo

Till Jesus comes I sleep
 


11. In memory of 
Shirona Ann Granger 
who died Dec 7, 1828
Aged 23 years
Headsone: S.A.G.
Row 2 Numbers 19 thru 31

19.  Seth Cary
died May 7, 1852
Aged 39 years
Can't read epitaph

2.  Norman son of Amos &
Phebe Mansfield died Jyly 5th
1840 Aged 20 years & 6 Months
12.   Alvan M. son of 
A.B. & V. Allen
died May 11, 1832
ae 2 yrs & 2 mos
20. Phidelia A daughter of
S & H N Cary
died Nov 5, 1846
3   W. B. Mansfield
died May 10, 1839 Aged 47 yrs
13.   A. Mariett
daughter of A. & L. Allen
died June 4, 1856
ae 10 yrs

21.   Ellen A daugher of 
Seth & Harriet N Cary
died Apr 11, 1853 age 2 yrs
4.   Phebe wife of Amos 
Mansfield died March 24, 1840
Aged 68 years
14.  Alphonso B Allen
1830 - 1898
his wife Lueretia
1814 - 1899
22.  Lorenda C wife of 
Albert Varney
died Jan'y 3, 1838 in her
37 year
Headstone: L.G.V.
5. Amos Mansfield died
Aug 23, 1860 ae 93 yrs

Let earth close ore its
sacred trust
Yet goodness dies not in 
the dust

War 1812 Flagholder

15.  Weeks, Phelps
died May 26, 1841
aged 2 years
Headstone: W.P.
23.   Hannah M died Jyly 16,
1831 ae 18 mos also an
infant son Sept 1836 son &
dau of A & L C Varney
Headstone: H.M.V.
6.   Aaron Parmale
died May 25, 1840
Aged 82 yrs & 3 mos

7.   Rufus Parmalee
died Aug 2, 1831
Aged 47 years
his wife Philera
died Sept 18, 1878
Aged 93 years

8.  Fanny daughter of 
Artemas & Sarah Cushman
died Sept  27, 1848
Aged 93 years.

9. Sarah wife of Artemas
Cushman diedJan 13, 1835
Aged 78 years

16.  Eliza died Oct 8th,
1828 ae 19 years, 6 months
& 10 days
Polly died Aug 31st, 1835
ae 15 yrs 2mos & 3 ds
daughers of Eber & Olive Coon

Then you below and we above
We'll sing and show the God 
we love
Until that great and solemn
day
When Christ shall call our
slumbering clay.

17. Olive wife of Eber Coon
died June 6, 1840 ae 54 yrs
6mo & 2 da

Our race is run we've gained 
the prize
Then will the ruler of the
skies
Will smiling to his children
say
Come reign with me in endless
day.
 


24. Headstone P. A. N.

25. Sally wife of 
Peter Newcomb died
Oct 12, 1870 ae 83 yrs 

26. Peter Newcomb born Oct
3, 1781 died Feb 25, 1853

27. John J Monty died
Nov 16, 1879 aged 61 yrs

28.  Loiza S dau of
John & Elsie Monty
May 23, 1840 ae 16 mo

29.  John Monty
died Sept 18, 1868 ae 84
US Vetran Flagholder

30. Elizabeth wife of 
John Monty
died June 2, 1842 ae 67

10.   Artemas Cushman
died Oct 8, 1841
Aged 89 years
18.   Eber Coon
died July 13, 1843
Aged 66 years
31. Cloud Monty
died July 31, 1839 ae 80
Rev War veteran (note 1 pg 8)

Row 3 Numbers 32 thru 38                       Row 3 Numbers 39 thru 53
 
32. Franklin son of Edwin & ann Ames 39.  Mehitabel Roberts
wife of Winworth Cook
died Aug 3, 1844 ae 63 yrs
Joseph R Cook 
died Nov 2, 1868 ae 47 yrs
47. In memory of
Nathaniel Collins
died May 16, 1832
aged 70 years
33. Mary L dau of
Edwin & Ann Ames died
May 25, 1840 aged 5 yrs
& 1 mo.
40.  Eliza dau of 
Samuel ? and Sally
Stone broken and missing
48. In memory of 
Tirzah consort of 
Samuel Smith, Esq who 
died Nov 5, 1858 aged 57 yrs
& 7 mo. 

A mother and companion
dear Lies here beneath 
this sod. Her language was
"mourn not for me But
prepare to meet thy God.
 

34. Ellen J. dau of 
Edwin & Ann Ames who 
died 1841 aged ? yrs 11 mos.
41. Olive dau of Harry & 
Betsey Densmore died
March 4, 1835 ae 7 mos 1 ds
Headstone: O.S.D.
49. Samuel Smith, Esq.
died Oct 27, 1840 ae 62
35. Marsha Jane dau of 
O & S. Safford
died Sep 6, 1850
ae 8 yrs 8 mo & 7 ds

She is on a Saviour's bosom
laid and feels no sorrow there
She is by an heavenly parent
fed and needs no more your care.

42.  Julius F Densmore
died Aug 31, 1868 ae 25
GAR flagholder

Sleep on my noble Soldier boy
Til God shall bid you rise
And then will be my highest
joy
To meet you in the skies
                          -Mother
 

50. In memory of Alvan M son of 
Alfred B Allen who died May 11
AD 1832 aged 2 yrs 2mo & 11 da

The grass withereth
The flower fadath
But the word of our God
Shall stand forever.

36. Orson Safford
died Jan 23, 1859 ae 76
43. Harry Densmore
died Feb 29, 1876 ae 76 yrs

Go home my friends
dry up your tesrs
I must be here 
Til Christ appears
 

51.  Polly wife of 
Abijah Searls died Mar 22,
1827 ae 66 years

Blest the dead who die 
In Christ their living head
Who on his power rely
To raise them from the dead.
 

37. Fanny Wilson
died at Chazy, NY July 24,
1838 aged 43 yrs & 9mos
Solon Wilson died at Chazy, 
NY Feb 15, 1841 aged 7 yrs, 
3 mos & 25ds

Why do we mourn departed friends
or shake at death's alarms
'Tis but  the voice that Jesus
sends to call them to his arms
 

44. Betsey wife of 
Harry Densmore died
Jan 16, 1890 ae 89 yrs

Gone but not forgotten

52. Martha wifeof 
Francis Hand died Dec 28, 1839
aged 24 years Headstone M.H.

O happy each angel now sealed in
glory Far far from a world of sorrows and woe, She has 
learned that this earth has no 
lasting enjoyment and calmly
resigned all her treasures below.

38.  Durfee Wilson
born in Leicester, Mass
Jan 23, 1788 died Oct 17, 1850

Why do we mourn departed friends
or shake at death's alarms
'Tis but  the voice that Jesus
sends to call them to his arms
 

45. Hezekiah Cook
died Apr 10, 1874
ae 69 yrs 9mo & 5 da

46. Henry F son of 
Charles & Sarah Collins
died Feb 20, 1841
ae 17 months & 32 days

53. Thomas Hill died
Dec 11, 1851
Aged 60 years & 8 mo.