Showing posts with label Portsmouth NH. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portsmouth NH. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Gravestone of the Day: John Jackson

John Jackson, 1691, Point of Graves, Portsmouth, NH

HERE
LYETH BURIED
Ye BODY OF
IOHN IACKSON
AGED 33 YEARS
DYED IANUARY
Ye 26 1690/1

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: Eunice Tullock

Eunice Tullock, 1807, North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
FUGIT HORA, MEMENTO MORI.
Sacred
to the memory of
MRS. EUNICE TULLOCK
the late belovid Consort of Capt.
WILLIAM TULLOCK
5th. daughter of the late Mr. James
Tuttell, who after enduring a painful
and rapid decline, with Christian
patience fortitude, and resignation.
departed this life in the well grounded
hope of a better, Feby. 4th. 1807.
AEt. 27.
Favour is deceitful and beauty is
vain; but a woman that feareth
the Lord, she shall be praised

Eunice Tuttle Tullock?

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Gravestone of the Day: Anna Holyoke Cutts

Anna Holyoke Cutts, 1788, North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH

Here lies (mix'd with the clods of the
valley) the Dust of Anna Holyoke Cutts
2d: daughr: of Samuel Cutts Esqr:
she cherfully resin'd her Soul to God
who gave it 28th of Augst: 1788. AE 20
With Life contented as in death resin'd
To sea's congenial flow the unspoiled mind;
Attending Angels hail'd her to that shore
Where Times dull [winter?]

Does this count as another way to say died? Number 60 is "Resigned His Soul to God" — do you think that "cherfully resin'd her Soul to God who gave it" is substantially different? I usually have no trouble booting a gravestone from 101 Ways to Say Died when I find a more interesting version of the phrase, but #60 is the gravestone of Yarrow, which is one of the few gravestones of African Americans in the series.