Lands End Cemetery

Newtown, Connecticut

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Lands End Cemetery is located on Hawleyville Road in Newtown, Connecticut. It has burials that date back to the late 1700s and appears to be still in use. Although located on a main road, the entrance is difficult to navigate. It is a rather unremarkable cemetery.

Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 1059.

Photos were taken 25 August 2019.

View of Lands End Cemetery from the entrance.

Two of the oldest stones in the cemetery:

"In Memory of Mr. Joseph Gunn

who died August 12 1768

the 76th Year of his Age."

Waite Northrop

(Stone is illegible.)

Born 6 Sep 1730.

Died 3 Aug 1773 .

A view of the older stones in the cemetery.

"Father

Dea. Enoch W. Ford

Died Dec. 30, 1885,

Aged 78 Y'rs

Mother

Mary A. Ford

Died Sept. 22, 1883.

Aged 72 Y'rs."

Sherman - no other information provided.

The Skidmore monument.

Another view of Lands End.