Name: Johanna Wheeler
Location: Stratford, CT
Date: 1694
Johanna was the wife, and widow, of the Moses Wheler (Wheeler) in the previous pic.~
Location: Stratford, CT
Date: 1694
Johanna was the wife, and widow, of the Moses Wheler (Wheeler) in the previous pic.~
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I didn't even check the description on your picture here prior to posting my comment on your photograph of Moses' Wheler/Wheeler's gravestone earlier. I can't even make out much in the way of the inscription on Johanna's stone; I see '1694' up top, but the rest, even though it's clear it was deliberately carved in, I can't pick out anything I'd be able to interpret with my naked eye (aside from characters looking like letters on their own). I assume the 'W' on the middle right refers to 'Wheeler', but aside from the date I wouldn't really know what or who I was looking at in this case. Would I be correct in that there were surviving parish/burial records for both Johanna and Moses in the local Stratford town records, which would've provided you with the illumination you obtained regarding the relationship between Moses' grave and this one of Johanna's (and basic details of Johanna in general)?
I often wonder, if such a burial as this (and of Moses') existed on a homestead/farm family burial plot, and not in a graveyard that saw use at least into the Civil War era (I saw two or three of the inscriptions on headstones in the background of your picture of Moses' marker), if such a stone (were it to be knocked over, then revealed; say in a new farmer's field being ploughed for use a century or two later) would simply be discarded, if no other indication of what it was, was evident in the stone itself? The mind wonders, it does.
Thank you again for sharing two more historical treasures with us, GiC!
-2Paw.
I often wonder, if such a burial as this (and of Moses') existed on a homestead/farm family burial plot, and not in a graveyard that saw use at least into the Civil War era (I saw two or three of the inscriptions on headstones in the background of your picture of Moses' marker), if such a stone (were it to be knocked over, then revealed; say in a new farmer's field being ploughed for use a century or two later) would simply be discarded, if no other indication of what it was, was evident in the stone itself? The mind wonders, it does.
Thank you again for sharing two more historical treasures with us, GiC!
-2Paw.
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