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Lawn Cemetery is a small burial ground located on Lane Street in Huntington Center (Shelton), Connecticut. The Cemetery is unique in that it is bisected by a golf course. The older section of the cemetery is before the course; you can see the newer section across the course farther down the street. Lawn was incorporated in 1879 with the majority of the stones dating from the mid-1900s to the present. There are a number of firefighters and Armed Forces veterans (particularly the Navy) interred here; I found it intriguing that many of the Navy personnel were female. The town recently founded a new cemetery, Huntington Lawn South , about a half a mile south on Huntington Street.
Lawn Cemetery is the final resting place of aviation pioneer, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin.
Estimated number of interments, as of February 2025: at least 1562.
Photos were taken 11 July 2012.
"ORRIN TALMADGE
Nov. 5, 1828.
Feb. 18, 1909.
CATHERINE A. TREAT
His Wife
Feb. 7, 1830.
July 6, 1898."
"Clarence D. Chamberlin
1893 - 1976
First man to fly non-stop
New York to Germany
carrying passenger 1927;
set world's closed
course endurance record 1927;
set altitude record 1932;
aircraft designer, builder and pilot.
Elected Teterboro Hall of Fame 1972."
"JAMES BARRON TAYLOR
"JIMMY"
Feb. 25, 1977 - May 23, 1989
A newspaper carrier
"who died on the job"
THE RIVER BY MY HOUSE
Jimmy Taylor, 1989
The river by my house
so small, yet so big
The river by my house
sometimes dirty, sometimes clean
The river by my house
sometimes dark, sometimes bright
For no matter what day
no matter what time
the river by my house
is as pretty as life itself
DEVOTED SON
BROTHER AND FRIEND"
The older section of Lawn Cemetery
as seen from the newer section.
View of the smaller, newer area
from the older area
(golf course in between).
All photos copyright by the author, 2012. Not to be used or reproduced without permission.
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