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| Flora Coggeshall, 1766, Newport |
IN MEMORY of
Flora Coggeshall
Wife of Mark
Tillinghast who
died Dec ye
29th 1766 in
ye 48th Year of
her Age.
In most cases, is very unusual for colonial-era gravestones to identify a wife and her husband by different last names. Yet, there is one graveyard in New England where it is the norm: God's Little Acre, the section of the Newport Common Burying Ground where Newport's slaves are buried.
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