Anna How
Oct 8, 1764 – Oct 8, 1778
Buried at Meeting House Hill
Transcription
In memory of Anna How, (Dau. of Mr. Abner & M_rs. Sarah How) who died Oct. 8th 1778, in the 14_th Year of her Age.
Come children lay your follies by, ...prepare die
- Surveyed On
- November 3, 2015
- Stone Type
- slate
- Tympanum
- face with ornamentation
- Border
- A simple two line border runs along the beveled edge of the tympanum and along the top of the tablet section. The gabled bas-relief tablet has 2 line and the space between them is a negative cut.
- Remark
- The tympanum has four design elements. The arch is blank and is above all. The pulled back hair, eyebrow to nose transition, emotionless mouth are all period appropriate. The wings are tab-like and are arched to take up space and focus the viewer. The rest of the tympanum of this stone is blank above the tablet section.
- Physical Status
- straight embedded_vertical
- Intelligibility
- readable with difficulty
- Biological Contaminants
- minor incursion
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