At the corner of Siwanoy Road and Taylor Drive in Cos Cob is a small plot where members of the Hitchcock family are interred. It is an attractive cemetery, bordered with sturdy stone walls and shaded by large trees. In the center is a small mound concealing what is probably a vault containing a number of graves. The identities of those interred therein is not known. The gravestones are fieldstones, brownstones and marble.
This cemetery has carved tombstones that date from the year 1774 until 1827.
Thomas Hitchcock, who died in 1813, was a private in Captain Abraham Mead's Company during the Revolutionary War.
Contrary to what some suppose no Indians are buried in this family plot.
Mary, wife of Thomas Hitchcock,
died April 21, 1797 aged 17 years, 10 months, 19 days.
Blessed are the pure in heart
For they shall find God.
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