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Grandpa Appleton lies next to his first wife, Sarah Chappell.1

“In Memory of
Mrs. Sarah Stillman
Consort of
Mr. Appleton Stillman
who died
Dec. 21, 1800
in the 40th Year
of her Age”
Appleton and Sarah married in 1788 and had five children. As her stone says, she died twelve years later. The next year, he married our 3G Grandma Amanda Hurd, and they had seven more, beginning with Great-Great-Grandpa Jason Stillman.

I haven’t discovered Grandma Amanda’s resting place. Maybe she’s here, in the Beech Hill Cemetery in Colebrook, Connecticut, without a surviving marker. Or maybe with her parents in the Beech Plain Cemetery, over the state line in Sandisfield.2
The seven children of Appleton and Amanda:
  1. Jason Stillman (b. 18 Aug 1802; d. 15 Sep 1838?) our GGF, m. GGM
    Harriet Elizabeth Seymour)
  2. Dexter Stillman (b. 23 Mar 1804; d. 11 Nov 1852)
  3. Sylvester Stillman (b. 20 Apr 1806; d. 13 Apr 1807)
  4. Sally Fidelia Stillman (b. 11 Apr 1808; d. 8 Oct 1858)
  5. Sylvester Stillman
  6. Lucia Stillman
  7. Lucius Stillman
1The Chappell (or Chappel or Chapel) family, said to be of Nova Scotia, married into ours at several points. Grandma Amanda had, for example, an Uncle Richard “Chapel”because Richard married her mother Rebecca’s sister Sarah. Uncle (4G) Robert Stillman, moreover, Grandpa Appleton’s brother, married Zipporah Chappell; both are buried here.
2Had I not confused the two cemeteries in preparing my visit in 2005, I might already have some of this information. It makes me feel a little less dumb that most genealogical sources refer to them as the “Beach Hill” and “Beach Plain” burying grounds, respectively. This landlocked region boasts many beautiful beech trees; I have observed no beaches.
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