Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut

In the last post, I mentioned that Andrew Hull Foote was buried in Grove Street Cemetery.  This is also known as the Westminster of Yale.  It is surrounded by Yale University.

There is a long list of notables buried there, including:

Charles Goodyear-- tires

Roger Sherman--  Declaration of Independence signer

Alfred Howe Terry--  Commanded Union forces at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher and Custer at the Little Big Horn.

Noah Webster Jr--  dictionary

Eli Whitney--  cotton gin

--Old B-Runner