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The story behind rows of unmarked stones at New Haven cemetery

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Roughly 2,200 people are buried at Blake Street Cemetery, many in graves marked only with numbers. Researchers want to tell their stories.

An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places and things For more than a century, Anna Horan’s gravesite was one of the thousands marked by squat, featureless headstones arranged in uneven rows along the hillside in New Haven’s Blake Street Cemetery. The only identifying marking, the number 685, was slowly eroded away by the elements until it, too, was gone. Horan, the daughter of Irish immigrants, died penniless at the Springside Almshouse in 1907. Her life was marked by occasional misfortunes recorded in the city’s newspapers: her father died during he

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