Kinne Cemetery
Introduction '''Kinne Cemetery''', also known as the '''Glasgo Cemetery''' and '''Old Kinne Burying Ground''', is a historic cemetery in Jarvis Road in Griswold, Connecticut. The earliest marked stone is for Daniel Kinne who died in 1713.In the 1930s, the inscriptions of 79 stones in the Kinne Cemetery were recorded for the Hale Index. There are around 80 fieldstones with no carving or identification, but it is unknown if this stems from wearing of the gneiss stone or that there were no skilled carvers locally available. The seven carvers that have been identified are Lebbeus Kimball, Jotham Warren, Josiah Manning, Peter Barker, Mr. Huntington of Lebanon, E. Marston of Mystic Bridge and O. Doty of Stonington. The National Historic Register of Places nomination notes, "the cemetery is significant artistically because the carving on the stones gives many good examples of the funerary art that was characteristic of the 18th and 19th centuries in New England." The cemetery is notable because of the burial of Isaac C. Glasko, the namesake of the village of Glasgo, and a prominent African American land-holding man who ran a blacksmith shop that was important to the marine industry of the area. The cemetery was made a part of the Connecticut Freedom Trail in 1995 and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 2001.
History Established around 1713, the Kinne Cemetery is one of eighteen family cemeteries in Griswold. It rests upon the land of Joseph Kinne, who came to Griswold from Salem, Massachusetts in 1704 and includes the land of Thomas Kinne, also came from Salem in 1714.The exact date of its founding is unknown, but the earliest extant stone is for Daniel Kinne, died 1713.According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination, the cemetery was an active burial site for the Kinne family, including those of married Kinne daughters, until the interment of Clark Robbins Cook in 1912.However, the Hale Index lists the last marked interment as that of Herbert Kinney, died August 24, 1916.In order to improve and enlarge the cemetery, the Kinne Historical and Genealogical Society was incorporated by special act of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1884.In 1887, the land adjacent to the Glasgo Pond was purchased by the society, though the boundary of  by  does not match the town's record. The land's grantor, Nathan B. Lewis, purchased the land thirty years prior in 1857 from a Kinne family connection, Alexander Steward. According to the Town of Griswold's records, the property is designated as "map 78, block 136, lot 3". In the 1930s, the inscriptions of 79 stones in the Kinne Cemetery were recorded for the Hale Index. According to another study, 71 of the 74 interments are related by blood or marriage to the Kinne family.In the Summer of 1999, a group of volunteers worked to restore and clean up the cemetery that led to a ceremony in October 1999 with more than 60 people in attendance. The article in ''The Day'' highlighted the difficulty in finding the cemetery which is located on the banks of the Pachaug River, in the village of Glasgo, located in the town of Griswold. Iva Arpin said that the town would repair the stone walls and that the Children of the American Revolution would return in the spring to continue their work on the cemetery. In 2002, the cemetery had undergone a significant restoration which included the unearthing and accounting for all the burial markers that had been strewn about the grounds. Arpin noted that some of the stones showed signs of vandalism. ''The Day'' described how some of the marker stones and monuments were covered in nearly a foot of pine needles and that the roots had uprooted the anchor stones causing the headstones to fall and break.By 2007, concerns about public use of the land for recreation and reflection had provoked concern from Kinne descendants, but there is little that descendants could do. The grounds were once under the control of the Kinne Family Historical Society, but it was disbanded "generations ago" and the town owns the cemetery by default. The cemetery had been disturbed by the gravestones being stacked to "help climbers reach their optimum height before swinging" from a rope on a tree into the pond. Pieces of the wall and a gravestone had been thrown towards the pond and came to rest on a ledge. Courtland Kinne, a descendant of Thomas Kinne, wants a jersey barrier erected to stop vehicles from parking next to the gravestones, the wrought iron fence around the burial ground and the trees within the grounds to be removed because their roots could disturb the plots.
Importance The Kinne Cemetery shows the evolution of funerary art over the course of the centuries. The earliest marked stone is for Daniel Kinne who died in 1713.Daniel Kinne's stone has a simple rounded top with only his name carved into it.
Interments This is an alphabetical list of interments recorded from the Hale Index survey with all data stemming from a copy of the Charles R. Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions. Additional field stones are noted, but were not listed in the Hale Collection. According to the National Historic Register, names are missing from this list, including Isaac C. Glasko (1776-1861) who was "of mixed Indian andNegro blood." The listing here is not complete because the records of many field stones were incomplete and did not contain identification, including the earliest stone for Daniel Kinne who died in 1713.Kinne's stone only had the name carved. First Name  Last Name  Born  Died  Age  Notes Olver  Bordman   October 3, 1777  9 months  Son of Daved and Jemime Clark R.  Cook  December 6, 1835  May 28, 1832  42  Elizabeth  Cook   May 28, 1832  42  Betsey  Crary   January 30, 1856  65  Widow of George Crary  George  Crary   August 25, 1831  48  Charles E.  Fletcher   June 29, 1870  20  Son of John W. and Sarah J. Fletcher John W.  Fletcher   March 1, 1895  67  Sarah  Huston     Fieldstone Hugh  Kennedy   October 31, 1778  86 (about)  John  Kennedy   May 12, 1752  50  Abby Robbins  Kinne   February 8, 1868  82 Wife of Sterry Abigal  Kinne     Field stone Capt. Ezra  Kinne   February 8, 1795  66  Capt. James  Kinne   November 4, 1807  72  No marker Capt. Joseph  Kinne   July 12, 1745  67  Daniel  Kinne   1713   Field stone. Edwin Byron  Kinne   October 23, 1845  20 years, 7 months  Son of Sterry and Abby Kinne Elizabeth  Kinne   November 20, 1823  76  2nd wife of Capt. James Kinne Eunice  Kinne     Field Stone Gideon  Kinne   February 25, 1802  78  Gideon  Kinne   May 3, 1753  2  Gideon and Thankfull Kinne Hannah  Kinne   August 7, 1791  40-49  Wife of Capt. James, the second digit of age is unreadable Hannah  Kinne     Field stone Jonas  Kinne   May 6, 1766  13 Son of Gideon and Thankfull Joseph  Kinne   July 15, 1777  0-1 Son of Samuel and Amy Kinne, died in first year Joseph  Kinne   1777   Field Stone Keziah  Kinne     Wife of Capt. Joseph Kinne Lydia  Kinne     Field Stone Lydia  Kinne   1751   Field Stone Lyman  Kinne   October 24, 1788  3  Son of Samuel and Amy Sally  Kinne   February 22, 1797  10–19 years  Samuel and Amy, second digit of age is unreadable. Sally  Kinne   May 20, 1825  44  Wife of Sterry Kinne Sarah  Kinne     Field Stone Sarah  Kinne   March 1, 1792  58  Wife of Ezra Kinne Solomon  Kinne   July 4, 1799  22  Stery  Kinne   November 29, 1830  50  Thankfull  Kinne   December 29, 1798  72  Wife of Gideon Andrew  Kinney   December 1, 1826  35  Archibald  Kinney  April 16, 1815  Mar. 29, 1904  88  Husband of Emily Boardman Kinney Betsy  Kinney   February 9, 1849  84  Widow of Lot Kinney Elisha  Kinney   April 11, 1848  65  Emily Boardman  Kinney  Oct. 23, 1820  Dec. 5, 1877  62  Wife of Archibald Kinney Gideon  Kinney  August 9, 1790  June 13, 1875  84  Hannah  Kinney   May 21, 1817  36  Daughter of Jacob and Lydia Herbert  Kinney  March 28, 1847  Aug. 24, 1916  69  Jacob  Kinney   May 1, 1813  56  James  Kinney   October 11, 1834  25  Son of Sterry and Sally Kinney Lot  Kinney   May 30, 1825  60  Lydia  Kinney   August 29, 1832  73  Widow of Jacob Kinney Mary E.  Kinney   October. 29, 1850  18  Daughter of Elisha and Rebecca Kinney Pierpont  Kinney   February 1, 1829  31  Charles  Rix   November 12, 1837  1 month, 9 days  Name illegible, but may be Charles H. - Son of Ephraim B. and Lucy Marcy  Scranton   June 14, 1837  58  Wife of Thomas Alexander  Stewart   November 16, 1849  64 years, 5 months, 11 days. Thomas  Stewart   September 9, 1834  48 years, 4 months, 18 days  Thomas  Stuwart   August 13, 1783  3  Son of Alexander and Thankfull
Gallery File:Kinne_Cemetery_1747_stone.jpg|1747 stoneFile:Kinne_Cemetery_1773_founder_stone.jpg|1773 stoneFile:Kinne_Cemetery_1766_stone.jpg|1766 ecclesiastical stoneFile:Kinne_Cemetery_1792_stone.jpg|1792 gravestone.File:Kinne_Cemetery_Mill_Ruins.jpg|Ruins of an old mill sit adjacent to the cemetery, once powered by the creek.
See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut
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