I found several things of interest at this Cemetery, the Higganum and Burr Cemetery. It is located just off Rt 81 in Higganum, Connecticut. This is a small cemetery for a small community. It is apparently a merger of a community cemetery with a family cemetery. There is a very old section some of which you can see below.
Though old is often interesting, this cemetery has several very interesting occupants. It seemed to me that there were a large number of veterans buried here. As the picture below shows every grave of a veteran has an American Flag and there are a lot of them. (Remember this is not a specifically military cemetery!)
Though there were many graves from the Civil war era, some of the markers were different from the usual simple military marker. the one below is quite typical of the usual marker.
The marker below is quite different because it identifies not only the soldier who is buried there, but also identifies the battle in which he died. He died in one of the most terrible of Civil War battles, the Battle of Antietam. Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war with 23 thousand casualties. He apparently was seriously wounded in the battle and died later in a Hospital. Today we think of people surviving if they make it to a Hospital for care. Medicine and medical care were quite different then. Antietam Creek is located in Maryland near Sharpsburg. This Connecticut man died a long way from home.
There is much more to be seen in this small cemetery. It will have to wait for another post. Peace.

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