Helen Peck

Helen Birdseye, dau. of Nathan Birdseye and Dorothy Hawley, was born in Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut on July 17, 1751. She married with JOSIAH PECK on Nov. 9, 1774 (probably in Stratford). He died May 24,1821 in Stratford; she died there July 10, 1845. Both buried at Union Cemetery, Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.

Children were: Thaddeus (1775-1837), Birdsey (1784-1813), Josiah (1786-1809), and Sally (1792-1809).

Inscription: In Memory of Hellen Relict of Josiah Peck (the rest is broken). Her broken stone lies between her husband's broken stone and the fallen tombstone of her son, Thaddeus,who donated the land for the Union Cemetery. The other picture shows the area (the back of the cemetery and to the right of the road) where the old Peck stones are located.

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