In Memory of Elizabeth, wife of Elias Guion who departed this life April 26, 1855. Aged 82 years, 2 mos. and 18 days. Footstone: E.G.
Source: New Rochelle Tombstone Inscriptions. New Rochelle Chapter D.A.R. 1941
"In many cases- the Head Stones- simple fieldstone, uninscribed, marked the first early graves, row on row in the old Huguenot graveyard in New Rochelle, one of the oldest in the country. While undated, most of them went back to the late 1600s.
"In a plot ‘60 paces east' reserved under an ancient grant from old Bonnegrand, an iron picket fence with a massive iron gate inscribed ‘The Descendants of Louis Guion, a native of France' enclosed the plot reserved for his descendants.
"This cemetery was cleared and the bodies removed to Trinity Churchyard to make way for the New England Thruway, the Boston – New York Superhighway."
From: The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, NY February 9, 1955.
Source: New Rochelle Tombstone Inscriptions. New Rochelle Chapter D.A.R. 1941
"In many cases- the Head Stones- simple fieldstone, uninscribed, marked the first early graves, row on row in the old Huguenot graveyard in New Rochelle, one of the oldest in the country. While undated, most of them went back to the late 1600s.
"In a plot ‘60 paces east' reserved under an ancient grant from old Bonnegrand, an iron picket fence with a massive iron gate inscribed ‘The Descendants of Louis Guion, a native of France' enclosed the plot reserved for his descendants.
"This cemetery was cleared and the bodies removed to Trinity Churchyard to make way for the New England Thruway, the Boston – New York Superhighway."
From: The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, NY February 9, 1955.
In Memory of Elizabeth, wife of Elias Guion who departed this life April 26, 1855. Aged 82 years, 2 mos. and 18 days. Footstone: E.G.
Source: New Rochelle Tombstone Inscriptions. New Rochelle Chapter D.A.R. 1941
"In many cases- the Head Stones- simple fieldstone, uninscribed, marked the first early graves, row on row in the old Huguenot graveyard in New Rochelle, one of the oldest in the country. While undated, most of them went back to the late 1600s.
"In a plot ‘60 paces east' reserved under an ancient grant from old Bonnegrand, an iron picket fence with a massive iron gate inscribed ‘The Descendants of Louis Guion, a native of France' enclosed the plot reserved for his descendants.
"This cemetery was cleared and the bodies removed to Trinity Churchyard to make way for the New England Thruway, the Boston – New York Superhighway."
From: The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, NY February 9, 1955.
Source: New Rochelle Tombstone Inscriptions. New Rochelle Chapter D.A.R. 1941
"In many cases- the Head Stones- simple fieldstone, uninscribed, marked the first early graves, row on row in the old Huguenot graveyard in New Rochelle, one of the oldest in the country. While undated, most of them went back to the late 1600s.
"In a plot ‘60 paces east' reserved under an ancient grant from old Bonnegrand, an iron picket fence with a massive iron gate inscribed ‘The Descendants of Louis Guion, a native of France' enclosed the plot reserved for his descendants.
"This cemetery was cleared and the bodies removed to Trinity Churchyard to make way for the New England Thruway, the Boston – New York Superhighway."
From: The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, NY February 9, 1955.
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