tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post5403209372633856775..comments2024-03-17T16:32:51.970-04:00Comments on Vast Public Indifference: 101 Ways, Part 29: Kill'd By a CartCDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14390048358391513711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-67156935963860215552008-09-14T19:41:00.000-04:002008-09-14T19:41:00.000-04:00I checked the 1798 Boston Directory for Boot and T...I checked the 1798 Boston Directory for Boot and Thwing, but wasn't able to find anything obvious.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Kirk Boot, merchant (Boot & Pratt), lived on Sudbury St. and had a shop or office at #30 State St.<BR/><BR/>There are three men named Mr. Thwing:<BR/>James, cashier @ Massachusetts Bank<BR/>Samuel Sr., clerk @ Massachusetts Bank<BR/>Samuel Jr., baker (I double-checked in the newspaper - he's definitely a baker, not a banker)Caitlin GD Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317897772288904474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-66829023554336871942008-09-14T15:44:00.000-04:002008-09-14T15:44:00.000-04:00Many interesting things there indeed. Who were Mes...Many interesting things there indeed. Who were Messrs. Boot & Thwing? Undertakers?<BR/><BR/>The verse is magnificent -- tailor made for an adult accidental death. I tried several Google searches but couldn't come up with another example of it. If it was written for the occasion it was very well done.<BR/><BR/>This is a stone of Dwight workshop in their style of the 1790s. Along the edges of the tympanum you can see the typical "Dwight drops" as I call them, a feature <A HREF="http://rjohara.net/cemeteries/south-street/#fig-7" REL="nofollow">he used abundantly in earlier decades</A>, but now reduced to a remnant.<BR/><BR/>I remember another accidental death stone in Lunenburg, but alas I didn't get a photo of it. I think it was a child killed by a flying spindle.Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com