OLD LYME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

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OLD LYME BURIAL RECORDS

The Old Lyme Cemetery Association oversees eight cemeteries in Old Lyme: including Duck River, Meetinghouse Hill, Griswold, Champion, Mile Creek, Point o’Woods, River Road, and Laysville.

The OLCA’s Restoration Committee is collecting data on burials in Old Lyme starting with Duck River, where interments span 350 years. When this resource is complete, it will be posted here. Until then, burials can be found using the resources below.

GRAVESTONE INITIATIVE PROJECT Duck River Cemetery

Find burials in the oldest sections of Duck River Cemetery.

In 2019, James Kolb, with help from Old Lyme Historical Society volunteers, undertook the creation of a digital database of burials in the Ancient, Victorian, and Middle sections. Those records can be accessed here

The Old Lyme Cemetery Association acknowledges the Old Lyme Historical Society’s work in 2019 to initiate the Duck River Cemetery project with James Kolb, and welcomes its assistance in providing public access to historical burial information in Old Lyme.

HALE COLLECTION of CONNECTICUT Cemetery records

Transcriptions from headstones in the Duck River Cemetery as well as other cemeteries in Old Lyme were collected as part of a WPA project in the 1930s. While some parts of the Charles R. Hale Collection have been digitized, information for several of Old Lyme’s cemeteries is not available online. The Hale Collection includes the following OLCA cemeteries: Champion, Duck River, Laysville, Griswold, Meeting House Hill, Point o’Woods, and Waite.

  • Read the typed pages of the Old Lyme section of the Hale Report online here or download them here. A hard copy is available at the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library.
  • Access digitized records from Laysville Cemetery here.
  • Access digitized records from a Champion family cemetery here.
  • Download a map of the OLCA cemeteries here and the Duck River Cemetery here.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Inscriptions from Gravestones at Old Lyme, Conn. (July 1923)

This article includes a selection of inscriptions from gravestones in Duck River Cemetery.

notable burials

Find Notable Burials at Duck River Cemetery here.

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