Gravestone of the Day: Abigail Sims

Abigail Sims, 1702, Little Compton, RI

Here lyeth ye

body of AbiGail

ye wife of Iohn

Sims & dauGhter

of Edward Rich

mond & Sarah his

wife dyed octobr

ye 4th in ye 19th

[year of her age]

Here is another stone with no year on it. I've said before that these stones make me think that they were erected soon after the death – certainly within a year, possibly within 3 months.

Abigail Richmond Sims died in 1702.