Cemeteries & Graveyards
There are 23 identified cemeteries in Thompson.
Copies of A Guide to Burying Grounds in Thompson CT are available at the THS Museum, Town Hall and the Thompson Public Library.
Burying Grounds in Thompson
- Aldrich (Coman) Cemetery
- Bates Cemetery
- Carpenter Cemetery
- Dike Cemetery
- East Thompson Cemetery
- Jacobs Cemetery
- Junia Joslin Cemetery
- Joslin Cemetery
- New Boston Cemetery
- North Grosvenordale Cemetery (North Grosvenor)
- Poor Farm Cemetery
- Porter Cemetery
- Quaddick Cemetery
- Ross Cemetery
- St. Joseph’s Cemetery
- Swedish Cemetery (Emanual Lutheran Church Cemetery)
- Tourtellotte Cemetery (Holmes)
- Upham Cemetery (Cortiss)
- West Thompson Cemetery
- Whittemore Cemetery
- Wilsonville Cemetery
- Winter Cemetery
Hale Collection
Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions
In order to combat the devastating effects of the Great Depression, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1935, created the Work Progress Administration (W.P.A.). His order was made law by Congress with the passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935. All over America, projects of all kinds employed, at the height of the program, more than three million Americans.
One of these projects was locating all the cemeteries in the State of Connecticut and retrieving the vital information contained on the headstones. Under the direction of Charles R. Hale, W.P.A. workers scoured the record books, woods and fields of Connecticut searching for cemeteries big and small. As a result, 2,269 cemeteries, 20 in Thompson, Connecticut were found and the headstones‘ inscriptions documented. The project began in 1932 and was completed in 1935. The following list of Thompson cemeteries is just a small piece of Hale’s work.