Gravestone of the Day: Bezer Hill

Bezer Hill, 1821, East Bridgewater, MA

In Memory of

MR. BEZER HILL,

Who was killed by the

upsetting of a cart,

Sep. 20, 1821.

AEt. 29.

Adieu my friends, a long & sad farewell!

A scen more solemn than the passing bell:

I hope with God in glory I shall bloom,

Where sorrow, sickness, death, can never come.

Consoling thought! dear partner dry your tears,

Your friend has gone beyond your anxious fears;

Weep not for me, prepare without delay,

To meet that debt, you all must shortly pay.

B.L.

Can't blame this one on David Blood.

I thought that this might be an example of Beza + accent = Bezer, but there is actually an obscure Bezer in the Bible. Maybe it's even the other way around — there's no Beza in the Bible, so maybe someone like Beza Soule is really Bezer + accent = Beza? There is a Bezaleel, though, so who knows.

In any event, the biblical Bezer appears only once. Some of his brothers and cousins listed in adjacent verses would also make great additions to my Alphabet: Jephunneh, Pispah, Ulla, Zophah, Imna, etc.