Friday, May 28, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: Mary Lyon

Mary Lyon, 1760, Cambridge, MA

Here lyes Interr'd ye Body
of Mrs MARY LYON, in her
first Marriage Consort to Mr 
THOMAS PRENTICE whom she 
survived more than 50 Years, &
Expired March ye 2d 1760 in ye 84th
Year of Her Age: not Impatient
of Life, but Satisfied with it:
Her Children rise up & call her blessed

A bit of Mary's history can be gleaned from this genealogy of her first husband's family:

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