Tag 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 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 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 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 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 17 – Two Unusual Carvers: “The Bat” & “The Bozrah Devil”
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
For more than a century scholars have undertaken the sometime challenging task of identifying the stonecarvers, professional and otherwise, who …
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Grave-tober 16 – Joseph Palmer
Leave a commentOctober 16, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s entry is relatively well known, among odd New England grave marker, at least: the Joseph Palmer memorial at Evergreen …
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Grave-tober 15 – Tobias Lear
Leave a commentOctober 15, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Captain Tobias Lear, who was laid to rest in the wonderfully named Point of Graves burying ground in Portsmouth, New …
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Grave-tober 14 – Mary Dorr and the Frond Carver of Medway
Leave a commentOctober 14, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
In Memory of Mrs Mary Dorr, Relict of Revd Jofseph Dorr who died Apl ye 9th 1776 in ye …
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