Mr. Richard Cooper
Apr 29, 1688 – Apr 29, 1772
Buried at Burial Hill
Transcription
HERE LYES Y_e BODY OF RICHARD COOPER WHO DEC'_d APRIL 29_TH 1772 IN Y_e 84th YEAR OF HIS AGE
- Surveyed On
- September 1, 2015
- Stone Type
- slate
- Tympanum
- skull
- Border
- The outer edge of this stone was damaged both prior to and during the installation within the granite frame. Around the top of the tympanum, we can still see a trace of the thin, two line border that was present. There are illustrated panels on three sides of the tablet section; top and two sides.
- Remark
- The skull at the center of the tympanum is an early representation with a round shape, oval eyes, triangular nasal cavity and heart-shaped mouth. The background is a multisegment display with rows of tiles. The illustrated panels at the top and sides of the tablet contain nautilus-like images cascading along their length and a circle with four armed starfish-like image.
- Physical Status
- straight cracked
- Intelligibility
- readable with difficulty, broken images or writing
- Biological Contaminants
- medium incursion
Buried among fellow family members
- Mr. John Cooper Dec 23, 1697 – Dec 6, 1760
- Mrs. Hannah Cooper Oct 27, 1710 – Mar 14, 1763
- Mrs. Hannah Cooper Died Apr 2, 1777
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