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The group says the upkeep and preservation are costly and time-consuming for municipalities, and there are concerns with private cemetery associations.
Connecticut has about 5,000 graveyards that serve as home to its ancestors and a solemn reminder of its history. But across the state, graves are falling into disrepair as earth, grass and weeds swallow markers that have become illegible with years of corrosion and neglect.
When Morton F. Plant died in the flu pandemic in November 1918, more than 200 people crowded into New London’s Cedar Grove Cemetery for the burial. The wealthy businessman, resident of Branford House .
A group of historic gravestone enthusiasts joined this week to help reveal, and in some unearth, bits of history at one of the oldest graveyards in the state.