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Tombstone Tuesday: Marjory (Milne) Kinmond 1817-1891
A nice example of a maiden name on a tombstone. Her husband is buried back in Scotland.
Jul 7, 2009 4:50:00 AM
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Madness Monday: Anna (Coffin) Hayes ca. 1765-1812
One question we all ask is how much evidence is enough? Well, we ask that when we don't have the definitive answer and we are constructing circumstantial cases. Moses4 (Moses3 Ichabod2 John1) Hayes married an Anna Coffin at Rochester, N.H. on 3 June 1785. [The History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire 1722-1890 by Franklin McDuffee (2 vols., 1892, reprinted as one volume, Somersworth, NH, 1988), 2:618] There is only one Coffin family who lived in Rochester at that time: Abner5 (Abner4 Stephen3 Tristram2-1) and Keziah (Cromwell) Coffin. Anna (Coffin) Hayes was alive in 1802 when she releases dower...
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Alice Lucinda Priest 1866-1954
Alice L. Priest was a genealogist during the early part of last century. She was a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and her obituary appears in the Register at 109:65-66. Her gravestone is here. She was an authority on the Priest family name. One can only imagine that she knew that Degory Priest was on the Mayflower. She also knew that he had only two daughters, one of whom married a Coombs and the other a Pratt. One Pratt granddaughter married a Swan. With the confluence of Swan and Priest, I imagine Alice was very excited...
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