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"Obadiah Comes Fourteen"
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| Studying tombstones can give us interesting insights into Colonial life, art and changes in religious believes. Click on Parts of the Gravestone. This web site shows you the names of the different parts of a tombstone and some of the decorations that appear on them. You can start looking at tombstones by clicking on Conant St. Old Cemetery Look at several tombstones from different decades. See if you can see any differences. What decorations do they use? | |||
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Click on the picture to the right and you read what is on the tombstones of the Fletcher Family in the Central Cemetery in Dunstable, MA. | ||
| Don't forget to take a careful look at the write up on Deacon Joseph Fletcher and Elizabeth Fletcher's tombstones. | |||
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This is the tombstone of Elizabeth Fletcher. She died in 1802 at the age of 89. Does Mrs. Fletcher's tombstone look like her husband's below? What differences do you see? | ||
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One of the differences between the two tombstones is that Deacon Joseph Fletcher has an epitaph on his. An epitaph is a short statement in prose or poetry in memory of a someone who has died. To take a look at Epitaphs Browser and see more epitaphs. |
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These two pictures are details of Deacon Joseph Fletcher's tombstone. | ||
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This four pictures are taken from "God's Acre: A history of the Old South Burial Ground, Nashua, NH" by Jane M. Flythe photography - Mary Borowski printed 1988. The pictures are all from around 1775. |
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