Appears to be the oldest intact stone in cemetery
Electa went to Hancock Co., Georgia on Sept. 30, 1816 and died there less than a year later while governess of the Mt. Zion Female Academy.
Electa has a cenotaph at Middlebury Cemetery in her hometown of Middlebury, Vermont.
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She died "unmarried at 'Mount Zion' Sparta, Ga., at the house of Rev. N. S. S. Beman, D.D., afterwards of Troy, N.Y. in who Seminary for Young Ladies she was at the time a teacher." Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS., Vol. II, (Albany, NY: 1871), p. 1029.
Courtesy of Lewis Knudsen (#48241064)
Electa went to Hancock Co., Georgia on Sept. 30, 1816 and died there less than a year later while governess of the Mt. Zion Female Academy.
Electa has a cenotaph at Middlebury Cemetery in her hometown of Middlebury, Vermont.
___________________________
She died "unmarried at 'Mount Zion' Sparta, Ga., at the house of Rev. N. S. S. Beman, D.D., afterwards of Troy, N.Y. in who Seminary for Young Ladies she was at the time a teacher." Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS., Vol. II, (Albany, NY: 1871), p. 1029.
Courtesy of Lewis Knudsen (#48241064)
Appears to be the oldest intact stone in cemetery
Electa went to Hancock Co., Georgia on Sept. 30, 1816 and died there less than a year later while governess of the Mt. Zion Female Academy.
Electa has a cenotaph at Middlebury Cemetery in her hometown of Middlebury, Vermont.
___________________________
She died "unmarried at 'Mount Zion' Sparta, Ga., at the house of Rev. N. S. S. Beman, D.D., afterwards of Troy, N.Y. in who Seminary for Young Ladies she was at the time a teacher." Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS., Vol. II, (Albany, NY: 1871), p. 1029.
Courtesy of Lewis Knudsen (#48241064)
Electa went to Hancock Co., Georgia on Sept. 30, 1816 and died there less than a year later while governess of the Mt. Zion Female Academy.
Electa has a cenotaph at Middlebury Cemetery in her hometown of Middlebury, Vermont.
___________________________
She died "unmarried at 'Mount Zion' Sparta, Ga., at the house of Rev. N. S. S. Beman, D.D., afterwards of Troy, N.Y. in who Seminary for Young Ladies she was at the time a teacher." Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ELDER JOHN STRONG OF NORTHAMPTON, MASS., Vol. II, (Albany, NY: 1871), p. 1029.
Courtesy of Lewis Knudsen (#48241064)
Inscription
Daughter of Col. Seth and Mrs. Electa Storrs. Born in Middlebury, VT. Left her native village for this place Sep 30, 1816. Died 1817 when governess of the Mt. Zion Female Academy.
Gravesite Details
It appears her family erected a memorial in the family plot. See Find A Grave Memorial# 36886156
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