Tag Archives: Grave-tober
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Grave-tober 11 – Chow Manderien
Leave a commentOctober 11, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
New England’s merchant ships ranged across the globe in the 18th century; sometimes we find a reminder of that carved …
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Grave-tober 10 – Capt. Edward Hutchinson
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s stone is that of Captain Edward Hutchinson, a casualty of King Philip’s War and the first Grave-tober subject to …
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Grave-tober 8 – Rebecca White, Boston refugee
Leave a commentOctober 8, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Today’s Grave-tober entry is a demonstration of the range of biographical information one might encounter in an epitaph. Most markers …
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Grave-tober 7 – William Dickson
Leave a commentOctober 7, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
To Today’s gravestone is found in the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, marking the burial place of William Dickson …
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Grave-tober 5 – Mary Buss (and the Merrimack Valley style)
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
We’ve preciously touched on the idiosyncratic style of the gravestone carver William Young. Today’s carver… technically a style of carving… …
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Grave-tober 4 – Martha Green and Infant
Leave a commentOctober 4, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
We The archetypal New England gravestone is often rather impersonal – a winged skull, a few names and dates, a …
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Grave-tober 2 – Lydia Hall (carved by William Young)
2October 2, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Day two of Grave-tober takes us to Spencer, Massachusetts, a small town in south-central Worcester county on Route 9. In …
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Grave-tober 1 – Sarah Tefft, Warwick RI
1October 1, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
For many years, the gravestone of Sarah Tefft was believed to be the oldest extant gravestone in New England. Recent …
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Grave-tober, an overview
1September 30, 2018 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
…or should that be a “tober”-view? Back in wilder times, when I had but one offspring, I put together a …
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