Red Dock Cemetary Submitted by Nila Repard nrepard@frontiernet.net About 1000 feet west of the West Lake Road, on the north side of a former east-west road which connected West Lake rd. and Middle Cheshire Rd. and which has now been abandoned, is a cemetary no longer in use.wherein burials were made fron 1831 to 1883, including names such as Beemen, Wolverton, Dempsey, Gates and Burch. The first mention of a burying ground at this site is contained in a deed in 1822 by Parshall to Parshall recorded in Liber 40 of Deeds at page 270. The Grantor had obtained his title from the State of Connecticut in 1812 by deed recorded in Liber 18 of Deeds at page 14. This particular cemetary was a portion of a 6 acre parsel, which parsel abutted on the north side of "the highway running westerly from Red Dock Point," and the burying ground not being defined in size except as located in a deed by Gates to Chamberlain, recorded March 1, 1886, in Liber 181 of Deeds at page 208: "Excepting and reserving therefrom the burying ground on said farm as now owned." Since the former highway was abandoned, there does not appear of record any right of way for access to this burying ground from any public highway, excepting those private lands. "That o;ld road was north of a gully that is still very evident from Wyffles Rd. Mr. Wyffles (10/20/1993) hiked up there and took some pictures. The cemetary is very overgrown and some stones are in disrepair. Page notes transcription was done in 1970 Beeman, Seth, Born 1794 Died June 3, 1868 73yr 8mo 20days Beeman, Francis J., Died 4 mo.old July 17, 1827 Beeman, Elsie, Born 1791 Died Dec. 19, 1831 Wife of Seth, 40 yrs. Beeman, Elizabeth, Born 1820 Died March 19, 1832 dau of Seth and Elsie, 12 yrs Beeman, Seth, Born 1831 Died July 5, 1834 son of Seth and Elsie Birch, Rev. Robert, Died July 1, 1855 22yrs 4mo 16da Burch, Sarah, Born Jan. 5 1795 Died March 20, 1878 Burch, Mrs. Eleanor, Died March 25 1845 42yrs Beidler, John, Died March 25, 1845 42yrs Dempsey, John, Died Aug. 6, 1852 84yrs Dempsey, Jane, wife of John Died Sept. 13, 1861 90yrs 6mo Dempsey, Thomas, Died Oct. 8, 1865 69yrs 6mo Dempsey, Elizabeth, Wife of Thomas, Died Mar. 6, 1882 84yrs Children of E.L. and C.H. Gates Lizzie P., June 27, 1883 16yrs Ralph, August 10, 1883 14yrs Wolverton, Joel, Died Oct. 17, 1849 64yrs Wolverton, Mary Ann, wife of Joel, Died Dec. 11, 1849 49yrs Wolverton, Asher, son of Joel and Mary, Died June 12, 1841 8yr 6mo Wolverton, John C., Died Oct. 6, 1862 Age 25yrs 10mo 8days Wolverton, Hugh S., Died March 6, 1853 Age 28yrs 6mo 12days