Gravestone in Side yard

The gravestone in the side yard of the Hitchcock-Phillips House is thought to be the original Hillside cemetery stone for the grave of Abigail Foot (1748-1788). She was the first wife of the Rev. John Foot, second minister of the Congregational Church, and the mother of Connecticut Governor Samuel A. Foot. The Hillside Cemetery grave is now marked by a monument that overs the graves of both Abigil and John (who died in 1813). In the 1970s, the stone was discovered face-down in the backyard of the Foot Home at the corner of Cornwall Avenue and South Main Street, where it may have had a second life as a paving stone.

Samuel Augustus Foot who is one of Abigail Foot’s sons, was born November 8, 1780, in Cheshire, passed September 15, 1846, in Cheshire. At the age of thirteen, he entered the Yale Class of 1797. He was a member of Connecticut's House of Representatives. As well as being elected to the Sixteenth Congress 1819 to 1821, and Eighteenth Congress 1823 to 1825.

Samuel Augustus Foot is buried at the Hillside Cemetery in Cheshire with his wife Eudocia Hull Foot.