Morris Ceremony Commemorates Revolutionary War Soldier
By TERESA WINCHESTER
MORRIS
"I thought it would just be Gary Norman and me,” mused John Avedian at Zion Episcopal Church’s Harmony Cemetery in Morris on September 2. A grave stone to honor Avedian’s fifth great-grandfather, Benjamin Weston, a Revolutionary War ensign in the 9th Connecticut Regiment, had just been erected.
Weston, born in Massachusetts, was residing in New Lisbon at the time of his death in 1818. With the help of cemetery surveys procured by Avedian and Zion Church’s vicar Gary Norman, Weston’s grave was located after two attempts to find it. A foot stone with the initials “B.W.” and an adjacent headstone bearing Mary Weston’s name confirmed the find.
