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A while back, I highlighted the epitaphs carved by Obadiah Wheeler in which he identifies men as husbands to their wives . This example fr...

When Mary Alleine (or Allen) died in 1727, Obadiah Wheeler carved an extensive genealogy on her gravestone. Whether by design, oversight, or...

During the eighteenth century, most New England gravestones encoded the language of patriarchal hierarchy into their epitaphs. White women, ...

Of all the New England gravestone carvers, Obadiah Wheeler is my favorite. Maybe it's because I grew up just down the road from his home...