Dellwood Cemetery is a historic
rural cemetery
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established in 1865 in
Manchester Village, Vermont.
Description
The cemetery is located at 2950
Route 7A in Manchester Village, Vermont. It covers approximately and contains approximately 2,000 interments.
[ The entrance gate is flanked by two marble statues. One represents "]Death
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" or "Mourning
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", and the other is the angel Gabriel
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, which represents a personification of the "Resurrection
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".[
One section of the cemetery contains the tombstones from the old town cemetery established in 1784. The tombstones from the old cemetery were moved to clear the lot for construction of the courthouse in 1822, but the bodies were not re-interred.][
Dellwood Cemetery is still an active burial location, however only 5 to 6 burials occur each year.][
]
History
The cemetery was established in 1865 through an act of the Vermont legislature
The Vermont General Assembly is the legislative body of the state of Vermont, in the United States. The Legislature is formally known as the "General Assembly", but the style of "Legislature" is commonly used, including by the body itself. The G ...
. It was built on landscape architect
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Burton A. Thomas.Abraham Lincoln
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's son, Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer and businessman. The eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, he was the only one of their four children to survive past the teenage years ...
, died at Hildene
Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home is the former summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln and his wife Mary Eunice Harlan, Mary Harlan Lincoln, located at 1005 Hildene Road in Manchester Center, Vermont, Manchester Center, Vermont.
History
Robert Todd ...
, the family home in Manchester Center, Vermont
Manchester Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Manchester in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 2,120, out of 4,391 people in the entire town of Manchester.
Geogra ...
. His body was stored in the receiving vault
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at Dellwood Cemetery until March 1928 when arrangements were made to inter his remains at Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army. More than 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Notable burials
*Edward Swift Isham
Edward Swift Isham (January 15, 1836 – February 16, 1902) was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. The son of a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, Isham attended Williams College and the Harvard School of Law before he was admitt ...
(1836–1902), politician
* Pierpoint Isham (1802–1872), attorney and judge
* Ahiman Louis Miner (1804–1886), politician
* Loveland Munson (1843–1921), politician and judge
* Ogden Pleissner (1905–1983), painter
*Alta Rockefeller Prentice
Alta Rockefeller Prentice (April 12, 1871 – June 21, 1962) was an American philanthropist and socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
Early life
Alta was born on April 12, 1871, in Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, Ohio ...
(1871–1962), philanthropist
* Benjamin S. Roberts (1810–1875), Union Army general
* Leonard Sargeant (1793–1880), lieutenant-governor of Vermont
*Clara Sipprell
Clara Estelle Sipprell (October 31, 1885 – December 27, 1975) was a Canadian-born, early 20th-century photographer who lived most of her life in the United States. She was well known for her pictorial landscapes and for portraits of many famou ...
(1885–1975), photographer
* Mark Skinner (1813–1887), politician
* Richard Skinner (1778–1833), governor of Vermont
* Walter J. Travis (1862–1927), amateur golfer
References
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External links
YouTube - History...Where It Happened - Dellwood Cemetery 08.13.14
1865 establishments in Vermont
Buildings and structures in Manchester, Vermont
Cemeteries established in the 1860s
Cemeteries in Vermont
Rural cemeteries