Newtown Village Cemetery

Newtown, Connecticut

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Newtown Village Cemetery is a 100-acre cemetery located on Elm Drive in Newtown, Connecticut. The cemetery was founded in 1860 but burials date to the 1760s and it is still in use. Several of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (14 December 2012) were laid to rest here.

Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 3499.

Photos were taken 5 August 2014.

Abigail Blackman, died March 27th, 1762, aged 70 years.

Abiel Botsford, died December 6th, 1773, aged 40 years.

Civil War veteran, Benjamin W. Matthews.

The Hawley Memorial,

gift of Mary Elizabeth Hawley in memory of

her parents Marcus Clinton Hawley and

Sarah Booth Hawley,

erected 1924.