Saturday, October 10, 2009

Squiggly 1


Deborah Barker
d. 1738
Men of Kent Cemetery
Scituate, MA

HERE LIES Ye
BODY OF MRS
DEBORAH BARKER
WIFE OF MR
SAMUEL BARKER
JUNR WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE DESEMBER
ye. 11. 1738. AGED
20 YEERS & 26
DAYES & HAD BEEN
MARRIED BUT 26 DAYES

1 comment:

Caitlin GD Hopkins said...

I was just in Malden today and saw that very stone. Do you know anything about the origins of these embellished Arabic numbers?