Cemeteries - CENTRAL CEMETERY & LAUREL HILL CEMETERY

Brookfield State and Federal Officials

Commission on Cemeteries

NJ Cemetery Board

Cemetery Statutes

Proposed Legislation

Find Legislators

Selected List of Cemetery Related Stories, References and Resources

Stories

1994

3/10/1994 Gravestone Sellers Complain of Competition from Church

2000

4/30/2000 The New York Times, CT Abandoned Cemeteries

2005

10/26/2005 Wikipedia, PBS A Cemetery Special
10/26/2005 IMDb, PBS Video A Cemetery Special

2011

10/14/2011 YouTube, Mushroom Burials

2013

8/28/2013 New Milford Spectrum, Who'll Maintain Cemeteries
10/31/2013 News-Times, Danbury's Bob Young Honored

2016

6/20/2016 The Hour, Union Cemetery Norwalk CT
10/6/2016 YouTube, Michael Murphy Memorial to Peace and Justice
12/23/2016 The New York Times, Family Cemeteries

2017

3/3/2017 Witness Stones Project
6/22/2017 The New York Times, Greenwood Hemmed-In
11/2/2017 WTNH, Witness Stones Project Guilford CT

2018

5/28/2018 The New York Times, Arlington Nearly Full
8/13/2018 NBC News, Neglected Cemeteries: Who's Responsible?
8/28/2018 The New York Times, Genetic Genealogy
12/22/2018 Yahoo, Embalmer on Death
12/24/2018 NEPR, Karen Sprague

2019

2/23/2019 News-Times, Branchville Ridgefield CT
3/25/2019 The New York Times, Colonial Philadelphia
4/5/2019 Tom Cotton, Arlington: Sacred Duty
5/7/2019 Understanding 501(c)(13) Cemetery Companies
5/26/2019 Middletown Press, Memorial Day Celebration
9/12/2019 Connecticut Explored, Abandoned Cemeteries
12/1/2019 News-Times, CT Cemeteries Fade

2020

1/20/2020 News-Times, Ridgefield Skeletons
2/12/2020 Hartford Courant, Ringling Bros Fire

References and Resources

Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Assocation
Epic
Geopath
Ramaker

VGIS.IO
Share Services Co-operatives
Yale New Haven Bank
Yale Ludwig Center

International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association
New England Cemetery Association

Grever and Ward
Johnson Consulting

Commissioner CT DPH
CDC: Connecticut Staff Listing
State of CT Telephone Directory (DPH Vital Records: Karyn Backus)
HSSSAR

Brookfield Cemeteries
Brookfield Town Clerk
Brookfield Conservation Commission
Brookfield Open Space Legacy
CT Cemetery Statutes
Brookfield Digital Archives

NBC New: Neglected Cemeteries
CT Historic Grant Opportunities
11/23/2019 Newstimes, article

Veteran Administration Standards
Brookfield Boy Scout Troop 5

Conserve Art

Weantinoge Land Trust
CT Land Trust
Glastonbury, CT Green Cemetery
Woodbury, CT
Legacymark.com

Pat Hunt, Researcher
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
APA Cemeteries Report 16
AMA Cemeteries Report 572

Topographix
Omega Mapping

CT Area [Sq Mi]
CT Maps
Hale Library codes

State Tax Index

Proposed Legislation

Funeral Homes

Cornell Memorial (Danbury, Brookfield)
Green Funeral (Danbury)
Lillis Funeral Home (New Milford)
Funeralocity

Grave Site Services

Craig Czaja, Czaja Brothers, Inc.
Tom Keane
G.L. Capasso
Sunburst Landscaping
Whitman Vault
Watertown Engineering

Mars Incubator, Nick McGhee

Monument Companies

Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral

Gravestone & Monument Societies

Cemetery Conservators United Standards

Association of Gravestone Studies
Connecticut Gravestone Network
NCPTT: National Center
Preservation Trades Network
International Southern Cemetery Gravestones Association

Age Calculator
Monument Builders
Memorials of Distinction

Craft & Trade

Seth Churchill Building
Seth Churchill Furniture
CT Builder
ICAA
ICAA David Csont illustration

Pozzolan Concrete (CT)
Memorial Granite (NY)
CT Sandblasting (CT)
Enviro Mobile Blasting (CT)
Nolan Sandblasting (CT)
Assn Preservation Trades

Historic Preservation

National Park Service STANDARDS
CT State Historic Preservation
Connecticut Historical Society
Historic Preservation Trades

Nelson Edwards Architects
Kronebergerson Historic Preservation

Monument Conservation Collaborative
RAOGK.org
Article: Architectural Design
SavingGraves.net
Historic Preservation, Inc. RI
Roger Williams U, Historic Preservation
Friends of CT State Archeologist
David Rumsey Map Collection David Rumsey | Farber Collection
American Aniquarian Society
Boston Historic Burying Initiative
Boston Cemetery Headstone search
Graves Registrar
Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground

Record-Keeping & Mapping

USGS Standards
US Census codes
IRS Non-Profit Organization Types
NTEE Classification Codes
IRS Exempt Businesses
IRS 990 Master File FIELDS
IPUMS
Record Keeping Best Practices ICCF
Sexton Records
IRS Filing Requirements
BibFrame2

Decimal Degrees Conversion
ANSI Standards Webstore
Monument Software

CT Unified Chart of Accounts
CT Council of Municipalities Report

Federal and CT Statutes, Rulings

Federal Regulations (Summary)
CT Cemetery Statutes (Summary)
CT Cemetery Statutes (Justia)
CT Vital Records
CT Embalmers Statutes
Ruling: Records Ownership
Definition of Mutual Organization

Accounting

ARI, Glastonbury
Quickbooks Online - Tableau
American Memorial Life Insurance

Suppliers

Cemetery Maintenance

Low Maintenance Lawns

UConn Extension Service, Bethel

Turf Magazine (Zoyziagrass)
Palasaides Zoyzia (thick vs thin)
Zoysia (NY Times)

Alternative Lawns video
CloverLawn.org

Earth Turf
U Maryland / Clover PDF
Versicolor.ca
Penn State / Microclover
UConn / Home & Garden
U Arkansas Zoysia
Zoysia Farms

Edging System
Restorative-Products.com
Steam Cleaning

How to clean a headstone
Cleaning Poultices

Orvus W A Paste Shampoo

Lawn Substitutes
Synthetic grass
Uncle Jim's Worm Farm
Wiggler Room

Landscape Architects

TOD Design
Thomas Elmore
Anne Wellington Landscapes
UMass Landscape Design
Laura Pirie
Jay Petrow
Landscape Forms

CME Engineering
CCA Engineering
Bascom & Benjamin

Timmons
Trimble

Gardens

Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia, PA
Honeyflow Hives
TheBeekeeper.org
Scott Farm
Mike's Honeybees
Mike BeeHives LLC
CT Beekeepers Assn

Continuing Education Units

Landscape Architecture
Design Mart (monument industry)

Ultra Tech Brands / Gentoo Coating

Industry Suppliers

Collumbarium by Design
Barre Granite Assn

Preparer Tax ID Number (PTIN)
IRS PTIN Lookup
The Stone Trust
Dry Stone Conservancy
Weir Farm, Wilton Workshop

ICCFA Supply Link
IMSA (supply association)
Wilbert Elm-Cap (West Hartford, CT)
True Point Memorials
Crowne Vault
Nunnikhove Molds
Cube Mold

New England Foam
Innovative Signs
International Bronze
Hager GeoScience

Stories

4/30/2000; NYT, CT Cemeteries
Union Cemetery, Norwalk, CT
1/24/2020; National Law Enforcement Cemetery
10/31/2013; Newstimes, Danbury's Bob Young Honored
1/20/2020; Newstimes, Ridgefield Skeletons
Hartford Courant, Ringling Bros Fire
8/28/2018; NYT Genetic Geneology
Helix DNA partners
10/14/2011; Mushroom burial suit
Embalming
12/24/2018; RI Carver, Karen Sprague
3/28/2020 NYC Refrigerator Trucks

Kerri Provost: Cemetery podcast/article

Friends

Donna Fedus, Borrow My Glasses, LLC

Publications

Building Design and Construction Network

Studios

Amy McNamara, Artist
Karin Sprague Stone Carver
John Stevens Shop, Newport, RI
The Carving Studio (VT)
Stevephan J. Yardan, Branford, CT

Memorial Design
Tecton Architect / ACE
ACE Mentor Program Hartford Business
- Brookfield High School

ACE CT Mentor Program
TRIO CCSU
TRIO Info
R.C.Goodwin

Buildings

United Rigging and Staging
Clark Reder Engineering

3 evaluation of cleaners for government issued headstones from Mary Striegel

Discussion Forums

Notes

Talk Death
Order of the Good Death
Death Cafe
NEDalliance.org
You Are Going to Die

Military Code of Honor

Amy Johnson Crow, Genealogist