Lime Rock Cemetery

The cemetery in Lime Rock, located on Route 112 opposite the Outfield Entrance of Lime Rock Park, and across Dugway Road from Trinity Church, is a separate entity from Trinity Church, and is managed by the Lime Rock Cemetery Association, who do so for the Town of Salisbury, which owns the ground. Notwithstanding the organizational separation, there are close historic, personal and organizational ties between the church and the cemetery, not the least of which are the Trinity parishioners who are buried here. Interestingly, this is not the original Lime Rock cemetery. The distinction of being first, however, has been eclipsed by the removal of the original cemetery, which was located around a mile west of the present cemetery, with re-burial in this cemetery many years ago.
What's Lime Rock Cemetery like? People ask this question frequently, especially people who live a long distance from Lime Rock. They're glad to see photos of individual headstones, of course, but questions about the overall setting -- and particularly the columbarium (an increasingly popular alternative for many people today) -- frequently come up. How to help? Jeff Silvernale was able to enlist the services of Root Tree Service to provide an aerial bucket for photographic services, so here we present some pictures, both from ground level and above, of Lime Rock Cemetery, and particularly of the columbarium. Click on any of these pictures to see a larger image.
Lime Rock Cemetery, with Trinity Church in upper center, and columbarium at lower right.	The columbarium, seen from above	A closer view of the columbarium	Same vantage point, but looking toward Lime Rock Park, across the road
Entering the columbarium	In the columbarium, looking toward the back of the cemetery	Trinity Church in background, sun dial in columbarium in foreground	A view from inside the columbarium, Trinity Church in the background
Monuments at Lime Rock Cemetery: In response to several requests, we are happy to provide here photographs of a few of the monuments in the Lime Rock Cemetery. Those initially shown are both from families with historically close ties to the parish and stones that simply caught the webmaster's eye while wandering through the cemetery. Please click the button to if you know of a particular monument in the Lime Rock Cemetery you would like pictured here. Subject to the constraints of time and weather (obviously it's not possible to do much cemetery photography in the Winter months), we will do our best to comply. Please note that additional stones appear on the Lime Rock: an Illustrated Walking Tour CD-ROM. for more information about the Lime Rock CD. Click on any of these thumbnails to see a larger picture.
Barnum family stones:



Richardson family stones:




Goodwin and Ensign family stones:




Beckley family stones:

Bethke plaque in the columbarium:

Brown family stones:

Campbell family stone:

Cimino family stone:

Crowell family stone:

Kernickerbacker stone:
Note that this is believed to be the oldest stone in Lime Rock
Kuhn family stones:

Patterson family stone:

Pierce family stones:

Silvernale plaque in the columbarium:

Tellerday stone:

Washburn stone:

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