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Samuel Dwight and His Carved Souls in Vermont Gravestones
The article chronicles Samuel Dwight a Connecticut native and early stone carver who studied at Yale and lived in Vermont. It details his distinctive gravestone designs featuring winged souls flowers vines hearts and hands with epitaphs by Dwight himself. It notes his secrecy avoidant life and that his surviving works stand in Shaftsbury Center and Maple Hill cemeteries.
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Samuel Dwight
Dwight
Connecticut
Samuel
John Dwight
Sybil Hamlin
Thompson
Conn
Yale
Nathan Hale
New Haven
Yale College
Mary Rowe
Michael Todd
Bennington County
Vermont
Arlington
Zerrubabel Collins
Shaftsbury
Roger Booth
Bennington
Abner Hill
Sunderland
Abner
Heaven
Hiram Hill
Miriam Hawley
James Cowden
Cambridge
Timothy Carpenter
Shaftsbury Center
Earth
Archangel
U.S. 7
Center
Maple Hill
East Road