Cemetery burial records are being used to enter additional names, dates and locations to the Hale-Nilson index. To date, we have added the burials from 1952 through 2025. We will continue filling in missing sections as time permits.
—-The Hale records were collected from headstones so these show the Death Date.
—-The later records are from the burial records and show the Burial Date.
—-Other information is provided where available.
The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions contains vital information from headstone inscriptions in over 2,000 Connecticut cemeteries that were recorded in a W.P.A. project directed by Charles R. Hale ca. 1932-5. These records are bound in volumes for each town and are indexed on slips in a single alphabetical file. These slips reside in the Connecticut State Library.
A subset of the Hale collection, plus additional entries, covers the Center Street Cemetery in Wallingford. It was transcribed circa 2006, by Gary Nilson of Wallingford, CT, and includes the Hale records plus an additional 2000 gravesites for a total of 3512 names presented in alphabetical order. http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/0-index_center.htm
Jane Devlin, deceased, also has the Wallingford Barbour Collection on her website, transcribed by Coralynn Brown. http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/wallingford_ct_index.htm
When used together, the Hale cemetery records and the Barbour Collection (vital records) plus the more recent records in the Wallingford Town Clerk’s Office can fill in the blanks when researching a family. The CT State Library has both the Hale and Barbour collections in Hartford.