The Green Lady of Burlington, Connecticut

The Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery is commonly referred to as the Burlington Cemetery and more recently nicknamed "The Green Lady Cemetery" because of it's history.  After to moving to Connecticut from Rhode Island, a church was built by the Sabbatarians and they began burying people there since 1780.  However, it did not become the official cemetery until 1796.  Today there is not much left of the cemetery due to vandalism.  Many tombstones have been destroyed and others out right taken.

Entrance to Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Burlington, Connecticut

In April 1800 Benjamin Palmiter a nearby resident, went into town to get some supplies when a severe snow storm hit the area unexpectedly.  When he did not return when expected, his wife Elisabeth went out into the storm looking for him.  She became lost and confused in the blinding snow and wandered into a swamp were she became trapped in the muck and froze to death.  Her husband returned the next day and went out looking for her and found her frozen body.  She was wearing one of her favorite green dresses.  She was buried in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery.