Category Archives: Grave-tober
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Grave-tober wrap-up
Leave a commentNovember 1, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
His passion for graveyards, in which he was glimpsed at all hours and under all conditions, was notorious; though no …
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Grave-tober 31 – Hannah Ide
Leave a commentOctober 31, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Our ultimate Grave-tober entry is found at the Mountain View Cemetery in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. While it this stone is not …
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Grave-tober 30 – Elisabeth Jones (and Connecticut-style stones)
2October 30, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
The mental image most people have of a colonial gravestone is largely rooted in the sort of stones that are …
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Grave-tober 29 – John Trapp and a rather short year (or two)
Leave a commentOctober 29, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
There are a lot of common misconceptions when it comes to colonial New England gravestones – Harriette Forbes spends a …
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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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