Sarah Friday's 1810 Granby Drawing
Hane's Burying Ground
Below: A Granby Cemetery marker for the nearby Hane's Cemetery which had been robbed of many of the stones and now mostly under a quarry slag pile.
Below: A 1959 State Newspaper story about the stolen grave markers.
Late in life, the first Nicholas Hane owned the Granby Ferry. The words left on his tombstone were a humorous departure from this life:
Ask not my name, but as I am
So shall you be."
The second Nicholas Hane died shortly after birth. Margaret Henrietta Kaigler (born 1809 and died december 12, 1831) married Jacob Deidrick Hane of Granby on December 10, 1829. Henrietta had a baby son, Nicholas Hane who died December 28, 1830 at age 3 weeks. He was named for his grandfather Hane. The little boy was buried in the flower garden in front of the home at the "old place". Apparently Henrietta and Deidrick were living with her parents. She was expecting a baby the next year and was near term when according to family tradition, the husband came in from the plantation with a very large rattlesnake that he had killed. She was sitting in a low chair on the piazza sewing when he thoughtlessly dropped the dead snake in her lap, "just playing". She began to convulse and had seizures until she died. Dr. Muller said she was frightened to death. A practical joke gone horribly wrong. She was 22 years old and buried with her unborn child next to her infant son, Nicholas.
Hane Burying ground original site: Status: Archaeology is not allowed on graves. Location on the quarry property is (Click here to see this location on a map)
Hane Burying ground new site: Status: In 1970, the family built a new monument in the main Granby cemetery. This new memorial is located (Click here to see this location on a map)