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Deacon John Barber 1712192 viewsThe Barber family purchased a set of gravestones for Deacon John Barber in 1712 bearing a skull with wings and a crown. Gravestones were carved and erected in pairs in the colonial era. Each grave was made up like a bed with a headstone and a footstone.
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Sarah Barber 173366 viewsCarved by the Johnson family in the 1730s, with very little deviation from nearly identical stones found up and down the Connecticut River - the Johnsons had quite a business going out of their sandstone (aka redstone/brownstone/freestone) quarry in the Middletown/Portland/Chatham CT area in the 1700s.
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Rev Nehemiah Bull 174027 viewsHere lies inter'd
the Body of the
Rev'd Mr Nehemiah
Bull who Departed
this Life April
the 12th 1740
in the 39th Year
of his Age.
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Ebenezer Bush 175716 viewsIn Memory of
Mr Ebenezer
Bush Who died
November 10 1757
in ye 71st
year of his age
Know then this truth
Enough for man to
know virtue alone
is happiness below
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Alice Collins 173552 viewsRight down to the Memento Mori signature
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Eunice Williams 170446 viewsHere lyeth the Body of Mrs Eunice
Williams the Vertuous & desirable
Consort of the Rev'd Mr John
Williams & Daughter to ye Rev'd
Mr Eleazer & Mrs Esther Mather
of Northampton. She was Born
Aug't 2 1664 and fell by the
rage of ye Barbarous Enemy
March 1 1703/04
Prov: 31 28 Her Children arise
up & Call her Bless'd;
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Reverend John Williams 172942 viewsHere lyes ye Body of the
Rev'd Mr John Williams
the Beloved & Faithfull
Pastor of this place: Who
dyed on Jun ye 12th 1729
In the 65th Year of his age
Rev 14:13 Write Belssed
are ye Dead which die
in the Lord.
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