Gravestone of the Day: Francis Davis Millet

Francis Davis Millet, 1912, East Bridgewater, MA

FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET

BORN AT MATTAPOISETT,

MASSACHUSETTS, ON THE

3RD OF NOVEMBER 1846,

AND DROWNED IN THE LOSS

OF THE SHIP "TITANIC"

ON THE 15TH OF APRIL, 1912,

Francis Davis Millet was a notable American painter.

This is a hop out of chronology for me, but I am fascinated by cenotaphs dedicated to people who died at sea. This is the rarest of gravestones: a gravestone that marks an actual grave for someone who died at sea. Millet's body was recovered from the debris in the aftermath of the sinking and was returned to Massachusetts.