Author Archives: Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
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Grave-tober 28 – Rebecca Polock
Leave a commentOctober 28, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Grave sites should always hold, even if the deceased are long gone and wholly unknown to us, some quiet reverence …
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Grave-tober 27 – Elizabeth Goldthwait
Leave a commentOctober 27, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Mrs. Elizabeth wife of Mr Thomas Goldthwait, died Novr the 8th 1796: in the 22nd year of her age. Behold! …
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Grave-tober 26 – Flova, Nero, & Thomas
Leave a commentOctober 26, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
In north-central Worcester County, between Mount Wachusett and Worcester, is the picturesque hill town of Princeton. North of the modern …
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Grave-tober 25 – Nancy Adams
Leave a commentOctober 25, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s Grave-tober entry is an unusual one, one very nearly lost and forgotten. Mrs NANCY ADAMS A respectable colored woman. …
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Grave-tober 24 – Eleazar Allen
Leave a commentOctober 24, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s entry, that of the headstone of Eleazar Allen in Chilmark on Martha’s Vineyard, isn’t about the stone itself (though …
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Grave-tober 23 – Nathaniel Graves and the Felton Family Carvers
Leave a commentOctober 23, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
I had been making occasional trips to the various graveyards of Worcester County after I had moved there in 2005. …
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Grave-tober 22 – Chocksett’s Plague Year, 1756
Leave a commentOctober 22, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Chocksett (a shortened form of Woonksechocksett, a Nipmuc name meaning “the fox place”) was the original name for what is …
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Grave-tober 21 – Margaret Haile (and Seth Luthor)
Leave a commentOctober 21, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s Grave-tober entry is this lovely memorial for Mrs. Margaret Haile, in Providence’s St. John’s Churchyard. In MEMEMORY Of Margaret …
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Grave-tober 20 – Hasadiah Houghton
Leave a commentOctober 20, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
‘Most of the gravestones I’ve highlighted this month have been created with some artistic intent, no matter how imperfectly realized. …
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Grave-tober 19 – Abram Bradly
Leave a commentOctober 19, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s entry in the Grave-tober series is not so much about the deceased or their burial market, but rather a …
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