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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: Martha Angier

Martha Angier, 1747, East Bridgewater, MA
HERE LYES Ye BODY OF
MARTHA ANGIER, Ye
DAUGHTr: OF Ye Revd Mr
JOHN ANGIER & Mrs:
MARY HIS WIFE, WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY Ye 23d 1747
IN Ye 14th YEAR
OF HER AGE.
Gone but not lost
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4 comments:

  1. RoyJuly 17, 2010 at 8:45 AM

    Wow! The carving in the tympanum is unique, to say the least. Do you know who the carver was?

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  2. Caitlin GD HopkinsJuly 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    I think it is Nathan Hayward, though I would defer to anyone who knows their southeastern Mass carvers better than I do.

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  3. RoyJuly 17, 2010 at 4:56 PM

    Hmmmm... Yup, they do look a lot like some of his other stones in the Farber Collection, especially the Samuel Bass and the Deborah Croade stones.

    BTW, I found a very interesting stone today in the Common burying Ground that you might get a kick out of.

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  4. Caitlin GD HopkinsJuly 18, 2010 at 7:59 AM

    Yeah, I love the Christopher Ellery stone. So strange. I have speculated that he may have had some some unconventional (perhaps anticipating transcendentalist?) religious beliefs, belonging as he did to the family that eventually gave us William Ellery Channing.

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