Connecticut Episcopal Church basement yields trove of headstones

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Several years ago, Christ Episcopal Church property warden Stanley Stanley was working on the gas furnace in the dirt basement when he felt a poke in the back.

He reached around and pulled a human femur out of the dirt, then a rib bone.

"I didn't go digging around there anymore," said Stanley, now retired at age 82.

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Parishes • * Christian Life / Church Life • Church History • Parish Ministry • Death / Burial / Funerals

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Posted June 29, 2011 at 6:59 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Bookworm(God keep Snarkster) wrote:

This is somewhat a fact of life in colonial churches.  Like London, where mass burials have taken place since Roman times.  It’s basically one huge graveyard.  Check out Catharine Arnold’s “Necropolis:  London and its Dead”.  There is even a place in the Tube, I think near Piccadilly, where the track curves a little instead of being straight because the builders either could not, or were unwilling to, blast the tunnel through a mass grave. 

God rest all their souls…

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