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Tombstone Tuesday: Daniel Dudley 1719-1811

Newport, N.H.  Son of last week's Deborah (Buell) Dudley.

Tombstone Tuesday: Deborah (Buell) Dudley 1693-1789

 This is lychen-covered and I didn't want to hurt the stone.  However, you can still the name Deborah in the upper right and 1789 on the lower left.  This from the Pine Street Cemetery, Newport, N.H.

Tombstone Tuesday: Priscilla (Bearse??) Hall 1644-1712

Another Capecodgravestone.  She is the wife of John Hall (Jr.).  Although hard to read in the photo, it says she died on March 30th, 1712 at age 68.  That  ballparks her birth at 1643/44.  A Priscilla Bearse is often promoted to be this woman.  However, there is no proof of that assertion.  See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, II:840-44.  When I get to the Bearse Family on my Surname Saturday posts, I'll explore this claim more thoroughly.

 

Paying It Forward (or Trying to At Least)

It was coincidence that last week a fellow blogger vented some frustration at Findagrave.  It's nice to know I am not the only genealogical blogger who at times needs to vent.  It only feels like I'm the only one.  I'm relatively new to Findagrave.  I'm still in the double digits for memorials [but, of course, I only do my direct lines really].  However, everyone has been extremely kind to me there.  Those who have had memorials for my direct lines, were only too glad to turn them over to me.  In most cases, I declined if they just agreed to link the gravestones properly.  Also, I got my first photo request in the last two months, which saved me a trip to Pennsylvania.

I spent this past weekend in Vermont and on my way up I decided to stop and get some gravestone photos from two cemeteries in New Hampshire.  The first was in Newport and was for my Dudley family.  That part of the trip went well.  I found all the graves and got all the photos.  Two of the gravestones were sadly lichen-covered.  Someday I may go back to clean them up and take new photos, but first I need to learn the best way to clean the gravestone without unintentionally hurting it.  Those photos are already on Findagrave and will keep my Tombstone Tuesdays populated for a while.  I also found a sister of my g-g-g-g-grandmother I didn't know was there, with one of her children and one grandchild.  

The second cemetery was about 10 miles south of the first in Lempster.  Supposedly another Dudley was there.  However, before I left I downloaded the three photo requests for that cemetery (there were none for the first) and armed with four different names off I went.  Sadly, I couldn't find my Dudley or two of three requests.  But I got one and I posted that photo and got a very nice thank you.  So I have fulfilled one photo request (and not even in my neck of the woods).  

Tombstone Tuesday: John Hall (Jr.) 1638-1710

Also from Capecodgravestones.  He is the brother of Rev. Gershom Hall, both sons of John and Bethia (---) Hall.

 

Tombstone Tuesday: Bethia (Bangs) Hall 1650-1696

Again from Cape Cod Gravestones.  She is the wife of Gershom Hall and the mother of Bethia (Hall) (Winslow) Hawes.   She was the daughter of Edward Bangs.

 

Tombstone Tuesday: Rev. Gershom Hall c. 1647-1732

  

From the great site Cape Cod Gravestones.  This is in the Dennis Hall Cemetery.  A great reminder to watch how towns evolve.  Dennis was set off in 1793 from Yarmouth.  So this cemetery was in Yarmouth in 1732 and the Halls were from there.  But if you are too quick (as I sometimes am) to note there is no Hall tombstone in Yarmouth, you would miss this one.

 

Tombstone Tuesday: Leah (Mandeville) Jacobus

 This is Abraham's wife, Leah Mandeville.  The Mandevilles were the big "first" family of Pompton Plains.  The Giles Mandeville house, one of the oldest in my home town, is from the 18th century and is now our church's manse.  I knew all the oldest houses in our town when I was young.  No surprise there.

Tombstone Tuesday: Abraham I. Jacobus 1754-1831

Donald Lines Jacobus is considered the founding father of the modern school of genealogy.  He published the journal that became The American Genealogist for decades.  In that journal, he put his own ahnentafel (vol. 31, pp. 63-64).  I noticed that his Jacobus ancestors came from my home town, Pompton Plains, N.J.  This gravestone is not one of Jacobus's ancestors.  However, it is facing a glassed-in foyer that connects the church office building with the sanctuary.  I must have stared at this gravestone hundreds of times in my choir robe as I awaited to process each Sunday.  And this one isn't in findagrave (yet).  

Tombstone Tuesday: Benjamin Cleveland 1701-1784

From the Scotland Burying Ground in  Scotland, Conn.  This is a case where the town was Windham at the time, but since has broken off.  The Clevelands could be my most successful gravestone line.  Benjamin's father Aaron is at Woburn, Mass.  His grandson and great-grandson are in New Brunswick.  And I have everyone in between the last Cleveland and me.  So, that's six generations (starting with my grandmother, the last two generations of us don't have gravestones yet) back to Nathan Cleveland, then I'm not sure about his father Benjamin Cleveland in Nova Scotia.  Then two generations thereafter.  Cool.