Gravestone of cabinetmaker and gravestone carver Benjamin Collins (1759) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by his son Zerubbabel Collins.
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Rebecka Clark (1759)
Gravestone of Rebecka Clark (1759) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Zerubbabel Collins.
Lydia Clarke (1728)
Gravestone of Lydia Clarke (1728) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Benjamin Collins. It is likely backdated by several decades, and was probably carved sometime around the 1740s.
Joseph Clarke (1769)
Gravestone of Joseph Clarke (1769) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Zerubbabel Collins.
Elisabeth Clarke (1769)
Gravestone of Elisabeth Clarke (1769) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Zerubbabel Collins.
Samuel Clark (1785)
Gravestone of Samuel Clark (1785) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Aaron Haskins in imitation of the Manning family.
Zerviah Buckingham (1748)
Gravestone of Zerviah Buckingham (1748) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Benjamin Collins.
Samuel Buckingham (1756)
Gravestone of Samuel Buckingham (1756) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Gershom Bartlett.
Thomas Brockway (1807)
Gravestone of Thomas Brockway (1807) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. This is one of the few sandstone markers in a cemetery that is dominated by local schist, and it resembles the stones that were carved by Springfield-area carvers like John Ely.
John Bill (1746)
Gravestone of John Bill (1746) at the Old Yard Cemetery in Columbia, Connecticut. Carved by Benjamin Collins.