A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
In the Beaver Bog Cemetery, New Farifield, Connecticut.
The Beaver Bog Cemetery, which is located at the intersection of
Bigelow Road, Beaver Bog Road and Route 37, was originally part of the
Methodist Church. The present church was built in 1835 and was called
the Methodist Episcopal Church. The building was built by Jesse and
Isaac Scudder, Archibald Campbell, Hezekiah Wildman and Amos Stevens.
Several of the early families buried at this cemetery belonged to the
church. The cemetery separated from the church in 1935, since most of
the original church members were then deceased. At this time it became
the Beaver Bog Cemetery. An association was formed in later years to
cover the maintenance. The oldest legible stone in the Beaver Bog
Cemetery is that of Zebulon Plat, who died in 1809. This burial ground
was recorded in 1915 and again in 1934. After comparing those records
with the actual tombstones left in 1982, there were found to be 24
stones missing, destroyed or totally illegible. In 1908 a monument was
erected there to honor the Revolutionary War soldiers buried at Beaver
Bog Cemetery.
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