LONG HILL BURIAL GROUND
Cemetery — 275 Long Hill Avenue, Shelton, Connecticut
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Cemetery research record.

Long Hill Burial Ground is a cemetery in Shelton, Connecticut. Cemetery research record. Historian Kevin Daly identifies this as the burial place of Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey, her husband and five children. Local lore holds that Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories.

Long Hill is the oldest — the '1720' that's the first stone, the 'Isaac Bennett' that's the founder buried. The 'shipwreck' is the origin — the 'Daniel Shelton' that's the swam ashore '85, the 'town named' that's the his descendants honored. The 'smallpox' is the '77 — the 'Josiah' that's the March death, the 'Danbury' that's the month before troops.
The 'Loyalist' is the refused — the 'Ripton Sheltons' that's the took no side, the 'obelisk '77' that's the great-great-grandson raised. The '113 stones' is the counted — the 'DAR '21' that's the photographed all, the 'broken and grassed' that's the found beneath. Long Hill is the commenced — the 'first death' that's the started the ground, the 'family monument' that's the 1877 added.
The file keeps Long Hill: the shipwrecked founder, the 1720 first stone, the smallpox puzzle, and the DAR census.
Long Hill Burial Ground is the archive's Connecticut file — the town's first grave.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Long Hill Burial Ground is the archive's Connecticut file — Shelton's starting point.
A burying ground keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Long Hill's hold is the primordial: the 'swam ashore' that's the began the family, the '1720' that's the oldest in town, and the 'Loyalist' that's the refused the war yet buried its fever.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] witch legend: Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories. Long Hill Burial Ground's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)' keep the claim in circulation. Cryptid or not, the report made the map — which is its own kind of existence.
  source: Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831) (https://www.monroecthistory.org/hannah-tomlinson-hovey)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Historian Kevin Daly identifies this as the burial place of Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey, her husband and five children. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Haunted Cemeteries — Connecticut Office of Tourism
  https://ctvisit.com/articles/haunted-cemeteries
· Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831) — Monroe Historical Society
  https://www.monroecthistory.org/hannah-tomlinson-hovey

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