Mr. Judah Marsh
May 7, 1721 – May 7, 1801
Veteran of the Revolutionary war
Buried at
Ware Center
Transcription
In Memory of JUDAH
MARSH
he died May
7th 1801 in
the 80th
year of his
age.
Father I Give our
g spirits up
And trust them in thy care
Our dying flesh for
in hope
And rise at the Command
- Surveyed On
- December 6, 2015
- Stone Type
- limestone
- Tympanum
- face with ornamentation
- Border
- This double memorial stone's design begins with a four line, three borders of varying width. A thing border is outermost followed by a large blank width border which is followed by another thin border line.
The interior tablet section is divided into three sections. The two memorials take up the top 2/3rds of the space which is divided in half between them. The lower third is given over to the poem at the bottom.
- Remark
- The porous limestone has become worn over time making some parts of this stone unreadable.
The two memorials use similar designs of a hooded, shoulder neck and face at the top. The eyes are almost mediterranean being large and accentuated.
- Physical Status
- straight less_than_20_degrees
- Intelligibility
- readable with difficulty
- Biological Contaminants
- heavy incursion
Buried among fellow family members
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