Son of Jonathan and Lucy Way Chapell; married Sarah A. McTammery. Children: Mary (b.1858); Sarah (b.1859); Anne (b.1861) Mrs. Henry Brockway; Lucy (b.1862) Mrs. James Daniels
Ira Chapell, a skilled stone mason, was responsible for building the massive stone walls that surround the North Lyme Cemetery. Standing as a self-built memorial and monument to his lasting achievement, the walls remain solid in the year 2010.
The North Lyme Cemetery Association formed in the early 1850s for the purpose of establishing a cemetery under corporate control in which a man might purchase a burial plot and have it exclusively for his own. The 3rd Ecclesiastical Society deeded over a small tract of land on the east side of its church. Other small parcels of land were purchased to create an area over one and a quarter acres.
In 1854 the cemetery directors contracted for the building of a stone fence on the north, east, and south sides of the cemetery. The resulting wall was described as being four feet high, four feet wide at the bottom and tapering to three feet with a capping stone covering the entire top. Both sides were composed of stones with a smooth face. The detail of the wall did not vary a particle from one end to the other.
An 1862 memorandum in the cemetery treasurer's book stated that the cemetery wall had been measured and found to be forty-four and one half rods and "this wall was built wholly by one man more than an eighth of a mile nearly every stone of which was broken either with a maul or drill and carted some distance all for the sum of $7.50 per rod." The first payment of $60 was made in 1855 and the last $10 paid in 1866 — a total payment of $333.95 for presumably eleven years of labor.
The builder was never known to have boasted of his achievement. He was described as a shy, reserved man, known as a keen observer who night after night enjoyed the company of others assembled about the stove in the local general store. In addition to being a husband, father of four daughters, a farmer, an ardent fox hunter and enthusiastic but patient fisherman, he was also known to be scrupulously honest in every act of his life.
Source: Secretary's book, North Lyme Cemetery Records
Ira Chapell, a skilled stone mason, was responsible for building the massive stone walls that surround the North Lyme Cemetery. Standing as a self-built memorial and monument to his lasting achievement, the walls remain solid in the year 2010.
The North Lyme Cemetery Association formed in the early 1850s for the purpose of establishing a cemetery under corporate control in which a man might purchase a burial plot and have it exclusively for his own. The 3rd Ecclesiastical Society deeded over a small tract of land on the east side of its church. Other small parcels of land were purchased to create an area over one and a quarter acres.
In 1854 the cemetery directors contracted for the building of a stone fence on the north, east, and south sides of the cemetery. The resulting wall was described as being four feet high, four feet wide at the bottom and tapering to three feet with a capping stone covering the entire top. Both sides were composed of stones with a smooth face. The detail of the wall did not vary a particle from one end to the other.
An 1862 memorandum in the cemetery treasurer's book stated that the cemetery wall had been measured and found to be forty-four and one half rods and "this wall was built wholly by one man more than an eighth of a mile nearly every stone of which was broken either with a maul or drill and carted some distance all for the sum of $7.50 per rod." The first payment of $60 was made in 1855 and the last $10 paid in 1866 — a total payment of $333.95 for presumably eleven years of labor.
The builder was never known to have boasted of his achievement. He was described as a shy, reserved man, known as a keen observer who night after night enjoyed the company of others assembled about the stove in the local general store. In addition to being a husband, father of four daughters, a farmer, an ardent fox hunter and enthusiastic but patient fisherman, he was also known to be scrupulously honest in every act of his life.
Source: Secretary's book, North Lyme Cemetery Records
Son of Jonathan and Lucy Way Chapell; married Sarah A. McTammery. Children: Mary (b.1858); Sarah (b.1859); Anne (b.1861) Mrs. Henry Brockway; Lucy (b.1862) Mrs. James Daniels
Ira Chapell, a skilled stone mason, was responsible for building the massive stone walls that surround the North Lyme Cemetery. Standing as a self-built memorial and monument to his lasting achievement, the walls remain solid in the year 2010.
The North Lyme Cemetery Association formed in the early 1850s for the purpose of establishing a cemetery under corporate control in which a man might purchase a burial plot and have it exclusively for his own. The 3rd Ecclesiastical Society deeded over a small tract of land on the east side of its church. Other small parcels of land were purchased to create an area over one and a quarter acres.
In 1854 the cemetery directors contracted for the building of a stone fence on the north, east, and south sides of the cemetery. The resulting wall was described as being four feet high, four feet wide at the bottom and tapering to three feet with a capping stone covering the entire top. Both sides were composed of stones with a smooth face. The detail of the wall did not vary a particle from one end to the other.
An 1862 memorandum in the cemetery treasurer's book stated that the cemetery wall had been measured and found to be forty-four and one half rods and "this wall was built wholly by one man more than an eighth of a mile nearly every stone of which was broken either with a maul or drill and carted some distance all for the sum of $7.50 per rod." The first payment of $60 was made in 1855 and the last $10 paid in 1866 — a total payment of $333.95 for presumably eleven years of labor.
The builder was never known to have boasted of his achievement. He was described as a shy, reserved man, known as a keen observer who night after night enjoyed the company of others assembled about the stove in the local general store. In addition to being a husband, father of four daughters, a farmer, an ardent fox hunter and enthusiastic but patient fisherman, he was also known to be scrupulously honest in every act of his life.
Source: Secretary's book, North Lyme Cemetery Records
Ira Chapell, a skilled stone mason, was responsible for building the massive stone walls that surround the North Lyme Cemetery. Standing as a self-built memorial and monument to his lasting achievement, the walls remain solid in the year 2010.
The North Lyme Cemetery Association formed in the early 1850s for the purpose of establishing a cemetery under corporate control in which a man might purchase a burial plot and have it exclusively for his own. The 3rd Ecclesiastical Society deeded over a small tract of land on the east side of its church. Other small parcels of land were purchased to create an area over one and a quarter acres.
In 1854 the cemetery directors contracted for the building of a stone fence on the north, east, and south sides of the cemetery. The resulting wall was described as being four feet high, four feet wide at the bottom and tapering to three feet with a capping stone covering the entire top. Both sides were composed of stones with a smooth face. The detail of the wall did not vary a particle from one end to the other.
An 1862 memorandum in the cemetery treasurer's book stated that the cemetery wall had been measured and found to be forty-four and one half rods and "this wall was built wholly by one man more than an eighth of a mile nearly every stone of which was broken either with a maul or drill and carted some distance all for the sum of $7.50 per rod." The first payment of $60 was made in 1855 and the last $10 paid in 1866 — a total payment of $333.95 for presumably eleven years of labor.
The builder was never known to have boasted of his achievement. He was described as a shy, reserved man, known as a keen observer who night after night enjoyed the company of others assembled about the stove in the local general store. In addition to being a husband, father of four daughters, a farmer, an ardent fox hunter and enthusiastic but patient fisherman, he was also known to be scrupulously honest in every act of his life.
Source: Secretary's book, North Lyme Cemetery Records
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