Doing research on the Center Cemetery in Farmington is made easier by the fact it's practically in my front yard. So while compiling the data of names and dates, I frequently trot out onto the cemetery grounds to survey the headstones and double-check the info on the headstones (bless my digital camera!).
And every time I pass by the Butler family plot (Francis Gould Butler et al) I would pass by a small headstone propped up in the corner of the family plot. I knew it didn't belong there, but I kept telling myself, "later."
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| Butler family plot with odd gravestone |
So then the other night I stopped on my way back from double-checking some inscriptions and read the wayward headstone. Wayward is right: "John Lewis Cutler." I went,
what the heck? There are no Cutlers buried in Center Cemetery.
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| John Lewis Cutler--and no dates |
To make it worse, there are no dates carved on the stone--just the name. So I'll check the cemetery records at
the town Library--the
Cutler Library, and see what I can find and where this wayward son belongs.
So my wife and I checked out Riverside Cemetery where the Cutler family plot is. We found a family plot for the Cutler's, and the patriarch, Nathan Cutler was there--but no John Lewis Cutler. So there must be another family plot in Riverside Cemetery, but where? Riverside is HUGE. So I'll have to take another tack. Stay tuned.
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