The Bough News of Evergreen Cemetery Association Volume 15, Issue 3 August/September 2021

do is check the website for A Walk flower purchases, which are then documented on our Through calendar for future place- ment. It makes ordering Evergreen flowers easy. Just post your name, location of your loved Cemetery one, date you would like flowers placed, put them Dale J. Fiore, CCE, in your cart, pay with your credit card, and we will Munger Construction Company supervises placement of the last General Manager block on top of the Crematory extension wall. choose the freshest most So many exciting things beautiful flowers just prior slant markers, flush mark- ; have been happening over to the date that you request ers, and infant & cremation Seasonal Flower these usually quiet summer placement. We will email markers in various granite Program months. If you have visited you a photo so you are sure options. us recently, you have seen flowers have been placed The next selections to the expansion of the Cre- according to your desires. be added to the shop are matory coming to fruition. It's as easy as that and beau- Niches in the Columbar- The photo on this page is of tiful. You will never forget ium, cleansing of grave- the resurrection of the new to place flowers again. You stones, and eventually the end portion of the building. can pre-order at your leisure. Midnight Mary T-shirts in It looks much larger than We have recently com- black and hot pink. Do not the original building but in pleted the monument/mark- despair. The T-shirts should reality it is directly in er section of the online shop. be available by Christmas Our seasonal flower pro- proportion to the original It was a bit more detailed for stocking stuffers. gram has moved online. Crematory. in the design phase than the Some visitors have asked Please visit our website to We are planning a Dedi- flower shop. It is necessary us to remind you to respect make your selections for cation Ceremony once the for us to determine in what the people who are resting any time of the year or any Crematory expansion is location your loved one is here at Evergreen. We are special event. Enjoy this complete. Please consider resting so we can advise glad that you are visiting, new option and new way to joining us. Refreshments you regarding what type of but please keep in mind that shop with your credit card. will follow the ceremony. monument or marker can this is a place of rest. Many of you have been be placed in that location. Keep vehicles off the grass ordering flowers for your It's a simple process. Check and No Burnouts on our loved one through our new it out and let us know what Pavement! Thank you. online website shop. When you think. Our notable in this issue is we enter the office in the There are upright monu- John Addison Porter (Secre- Evergreen Cemetery morning, the first thing we ments, double slant markers, tary to US President William Association of McKinley). New Haven & Crematory For More Information & Memorial Pages, Tel: 203-624-5505 or to Search for a Loved One, Visit our Website. Fax: 203-624-1223 www.evergreencem.org www.evergreencem.org Evergreen Cemetery Association of New Haven & Crematory 769 Ella T. Grasso Blvd. New Haven CT 06519

Evergreen pond at sunset.

Pre-plan Your Own Place to Rest In Style... Have you ever thought about where you want your final resting place to be? We oftentimes show you monuments and markers, niches in the Columbarium, and even memorial benches. As you drive through the cemetery you might wonder about the private mausoleums within the cemetery or the statues of beautiful women. If you have lived your life well, saved your money, and are not sure how to celebrate your life when it is time for you to rest, then pre- plan now. Make your own decisions. Place a grand statue on top of your gravesite like the industrial magnates of the past, choose your own location, or even decide to reside in a private mausoleum.

John Addison Porter - (1856-1900) - Secretary to the US President

John Addison Porter was born York Observer. Then moved In 1891, Porter served as a in New Haven on April 17, to Washington DC to continue representative from Pomfret 1856. His parents were John his newspaper work. in the Connecticut Legisla- Addison Porter and Josephine In 1884, Porter served as ture. In 1892, he became a Earl Sheffield Porter. secretary to William Walter delegate to the Republican Porter attended Hopkins Phelps, a member of the national convention in Grammar School in New House of Representatives, and Minneapolis. In 1894, Haven and then the Russell as a clerk on the select Senate 1896, and 1898 Porter was Military Academy also of committee on Indian affairs. a Republican nominee for New Haven. He graduated In 1886, Porter moved to governor of Connecticut. He from Yale College with a Pomfret Connecticut. He influenced the Connecticut Bachelor's degree in 1878 and purchased a one third delegate to cast their votes to the President of the United a Master's degree in 1881. interest in the Hartford for William McKinley at the States in February of 1897, In 1880, Porter joined the Evening Post. St. Louis convention. however, illness in the spring staff of the Hartford Observer In 1887, Porter fell ill and In 1893, he organized the of 1899 interfered with his and was a reporter for a brief spent the winter in the south. McKinley Club of Hartford duties and he had to resign his time on the New Haven Daily When he returned to Connect- and became president of that position in May of 1900. Palladium and the Hartford icut, he purchased an estate in club. Porter passed at the age Courant. In 1882, he became Pomfret, where he lived until McKinley appointed Porter of 44 and is resting here at the literary editor of the New his death. to the position of Secretary Evergreen.