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Grandpa and Grandma Hurd lie in the Beech Plain Cemetery, ’way up in the far northwest corner of Sandisfield, a good six miles from her parents’ resting place in the middle of town, in the Sandisfield Center Cemetery. Neither to be confused with the Beech Hill Cemetery to the south, just over the Connecticut line.
As far as I could tell from the surviving stones, no other Hurds seem to occupy this northern ground. Nor Stillmans, nor Smiths. Several Rockwells, though: Mary, Reuel, Ezra, and some others less easily legible. We tie into the Colebrook Rockwells via GGG Grandma Hannah Rockwell Seymour, born there in 1872, mother of GG Grandma Harriet Elizabeth Seymour Stillman Russell. I need to firm this connection up.
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Near the Smiths, back down in Sandisfield Center, is this intriguing stone. Either another Daniel Hurd lived in this area, contemporarily with ours, or our Grandpa Daniel married “Frelove” after Grandma Rebecca died in 1806. Then when he died in 1814, she would have become his “relict” (widow), retaining the title for the last quarter-century of her life.
As it turns out, Grandpa Daniel died intestate, and his probate record mentions no widow. The name “Freelove Hurd” appears in the probate index in connection with a guardianship in 1831 and then for the administration of her own estate in 1842; I’m still (December 2009) chasing these items, and I’m putting the
details in the
Mayflower section, including a timeline of events in Daniel’s life.
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