Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: Richard Hazzen

Richard Hazzen, 1753, Haverhill, MA
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF MR
RICHARD HAZZEN
WHO DIED APRIL
20th 1753 IN THE
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3 comments:

Linda Hughes Hiser said...

What a classic tombstone!

Robert J. said...

A beautiful stone. Do we know the carver?

Edward Hazen was one of the early settlers of Rowley and the ancestor of most everyone of the name in this region. Some of them moved to the interior towns; it's a common name in Shirley and Harvard -- the Shirley public library is the Hazen Library.

—RJO

Caitlin GD Hopkins said...

Comparing it to stones in the Farber Collection, I'd say the carver is Joseph Mullicken.