Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . Schoff, of Boston. In memory ofCatharine Elizabeth, Wife of Rev. Samuel Wolcott. Bom in Westminster, Mass., U. S. A., Dec. 19, 1812. Died in Beirout, Syria, Oct. 26, 1841. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. — Rev. xiv. 13. (Epitaph, Amer. Cemetery^ LXXXIII. Elizur Wolcott (473) graduated at Yale College, 1839;married, July 15, 1846, Martha Lyman, daughter of Daniel Dwight, ofAmherst, Mass.; held for years an important connection with the railroadservice, from which failing heal
Memorial of Henry Wolcott, one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, and of some of his descendants . Schoff, of Boston. In memory ofCatharine Elizabeth, Wife of Rev. Samuel Wolcott. Bom in Westminster, Mass., U. S. A., Dec. 19, 1812. Died in Beirout, Syria, Oct. 26, 1841. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. — Rev. xiv. 13. (Epitaph, Amer. Cemetery^ LXXXIII. Elizur Wolcott (473) graduated at Yale College, 1839;married, July 15, 1846, Martha Lyman, daughter of Daniel Dwight, ofAmherst, Mass.; held for years an important connection with the railroadservice, from which failing health compelled him to retire; lives (1879) inJacksonville, 111.; has kept up his literary pursuits, and through his knowl-edge of mechanics has rendered essential service to the community,especially in the provision of a supply of water for the town, which hesuperintended. Children: — 568 — 1. Leofwyn, b. Nov. 20, 1847 ; d. Aug. 7, 1858, —a lad of rare loveliness and — 2. Edith Dwight, b. Dec. 19, —3. Elilm, b. Dec. 30, 1859; d. Aug. 29, — 4. Rlay, b. May 14, EIGHTH GENERATION. 415 THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE IN SOUTH WINDSOR. The heads of the two preceding families were born in South Windsor;and we introduce here its venerable sanctuary, which was standing in theiryouth. The first and second meeting-houses in South Windsor were builtnear the old cemetery. The third, of which we give a sketch, engravedby Richardson from a drawing made by Ellsworth and completed byBonwill, stood a mile and a half south of the above site, in front of thepresent burial-ground. It was erected in 1761, and remained till 1846. It was a fair representative of the type of church architecture whichprevailed in New England for more than a century. It stood with its sideto the street, and a door in the middle, which opened into the broad aisle,with the pulpit at the opposite end. There was an entrance, also, at eachend of the house, — that on the north opening in
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