John and Zebina Montague, 1803, Hadley, MA |
In Memory of
Lt, JOHN MONTAGUE.
who died
14th, June 1803.
Aged 753 Years.
Also ZEBINA his
son was Born
18th, Novr, 1786
& died Aged 10 mon-
ths.
Here's another example of a father and child buried together.
Zebina is really scraping the bottom of the Biblical names barrel. He is only mentioned once (Ezra 10:43) — he is one of the many, many Israelites who took a foreign wife in Babylon.
See also Noadiah. Apparently, the citizens of Hadley had a thing for obscure names.
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