Last week Tuesday afternoon

Right.  So after spending a few hours in Hartford, I hopped in my rental car to look for the gravestones of some very special people on the Tryon side.  There was some debate about where Lucas' parents were buried.  I knew when they died, they lived near Berlin, Connecticut.  So off I went to the Maple Grove Cemetery on Worthington Ridge, Berlin.  A helpful worker who was mowing the lawn said he saw their headstone that day, and pointed me in the direction of the Old South Cemetery.

And there it was--one stone for both!

 JOHN TRYON, DIED SEPT. 1815, AE. (age) 66. 

RHODA LUCAS, DIED AUG. 1814, Wife of JOHN TRYON.
(my great-great-great-great-grandparents)

This is the Congregational church in Berlin, CT.  This is the same one John and Rhoda attended, and John was mentioned in church records as holding Episcopalian beliefs.  See my post at http://huseland.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-trail-of-lucas-tryon.html.

I drove on to Middletown, the nearest city to the Tryon home.  Many of my family were baptized or married here, in the First Congregational Church.

Scenes from Main Street.  You can tell a storm had just passed over.

I got some directions from these helpful firemen: "Where's the Old Farm Hill Cemetery?"  Answer: Talk to the South Fire Station.

The countryside where the Tryons farmed

The next fire station I stopped at gave me precise directions.

Old Farm Hill Cemetery was where John Tryon's folks were buried.

In Memory of

MR. THOMAS TRYON,

who died

July 24, 1804

Aged 96 Years 

(John's father)

In Memory Of

MRS. MARY

the wife of

MR. THOMAS TRYON

who died January 23rd,

1778, in the 70th

Year of her

Age.

IN

Memory of Mr.

ABEL TRYON

who died January

29th, 1761

In his 78th Year.

In Memory of

MRS. ABIAH

WIFE OF MR.

ABEL TRYON

who died Nov. 30th, 1756

In the 72nd Year of her

Age.

(partially defaced)

The gravestone of Obadiah Brainerd, 

a 2nd cousin of David Brainerd

An experiment with sepia tone

Countryside on the way to Durham, CT 

Durham is about 6 miles from Middletown.  This is where the Cook side of my family was buried.  They moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut in the 1730's.

A typical house from the colonial period.

Old Durham Cemetery

(my great x 6 grandfather who married

Dinah Doane, the Deacon's great-granddaughter)

In Memory of

MR. THOMAS

COOK

who died May 31, 1774

Aged 77 Years.

Let Survivors think of

A dying world and a durable

Heaven.

Footstone for Thomas Cook.

Memorial stone for Charles Chauncey

Proof that I drove through Rhode Island!

I got in to Plymouth, Mass. late Tuesday night, and checked into my room at the John Carver Inn.  I was wiped out.  It had been a busy day with many discoveries.