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    Home > Heritage Trail > Culture > Burial Rites
    • African American Memorial
    • Old North Cemetery
    • Spring Grove Cemetery
    • Cedar Hill Cemetery
     

Interred in Hartford cemeteries are African Americans who have made their final resting place in the Ancient Burying Ground, Spring Grove Cemetery, Old North Cemetery, and Cedar Hill Cemetery. In the Ancient Burying Ground on Main sits an African American monument marking the burials of enslaved Africans, some of them are the ancestors of contemporary Hartford African Americans, five African American Governors who served as ceremonial community leaders in the 18th and 19th centuries. Old North Cemetery is the final resting place of several African American Civil War soldiers. Mrs. Emma Faust Tillman, one of the oldest human beings to have lived on earth according to the Guinness Book of Records was laid to rest in Spring Grove Cemetery. Tuskegee Airman Lemuel Custis was laid to rest in Cedar Hill Cemetery with military honors.

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