Thursday, September 23, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: John Blood

John Blood, 1770, Pepperell, MA
Memento mori
Here lies Buried the
Body of Mr. John Blood
who departed this Life
march ye 26th AD 1776 In the
63d year of his Age
Leaveing a Very sorrowfull widdow
and Children who mourns the
Loss of a kind tender & affectionate
Husband & father But not with
out Hope as he manifested
his desire to be absent from
the Body & Present with Jesus
Christ he Buried ten
Children & Left six

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