Name: Experience Jones
Location: Medway, MA
Date: 1786
Carver: Levi Maxcy & Joseph Barber
66-year-old Mrs. Jones, who died 1/26/86, is not the only person memorialized on this stone, which is only about half a head shorter than I am. Quote:
"Also this Pillar is in
rememberance of Lieut. Theophilus
Clark, first husband of ye above
sd. Experience.
And also of Jotham Clark, son of
sd. Theophilus & Experience.
The father & the son, having
been engaged in the defence of
their Country on the way from
camp to their friends, they died.
The father being in his 44th
year died ye 24th of Novr. 1760.
the son surviv'd his father but
12 days, & expired Decr. the 6th
in the 17th year of his
age."
Location: Medway, MA
Date: 1786
Carver: Levi Maxcy & Joseph Barber
66-year-old Mrs. Jones, who died 1/26/86, is not the only person memorialized on this stone, which is only about half a head shorter than I am. Quote:
"Also this Pillar is in
rememberance of Lieut. Theophilus
Clark, first husband of ye above
sd. Experience.
And also of Jotham Clark, son of
sd. Theophilus & Experience.
The father & the son, having
been engaged in the defence of
their Country on the way from
camp to their friends, they died.
The father being in his 44th
year died ye 24th of Novr. 1760.
the son surviv'd his father but
12 days, & expired Decr. the 6th
in the 17th year of his
age."
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