Samuel Sawyer
Died Jul 12, 1797
Buried at Chocksett Burial Ground
Transcription
ERECTED in memory of Capt Samuel Sawyer who deceas'd July 12th 1797 in the 58th Year of his age
In the cold mansions of ye silent tomb How still the Solitude - how deep ye gloomy Here Sleeps the flesh unconscious close confined But far far distant dwells the immortal mind
- Surveyed On
- July 7, 2015
- Stone Type
- granite
- Tympanum
- face with ornamentation
- Border
- Plaque of text help up by stone columns
- Physical Status
- straight
- Intelligibility
- readable
- Biological Contaminants
- minor incursion
Buried among fellow family members
- Eunice Sawyer Died Jun 24, 1748
- Ruth Sawyer Died Aug 9, 1751
- Sarah Sawyer Died Sep 26, 1756
- Thomas Sawyer Died Sep 28, 1756
- Abner Sawyer Died Dec 6, 1758
- Aaron Sawyer Died Dec 15, 1774
- Dollee Sawyer Dec 26, 1767 – May 21, 1782
- Samuel Sawyer Died Jun 13, 1784
- Abigail Sawyer Jul 2, 1764 – Jul 12, 1788
- Deborah Sawyer Died Nov 17, 1790
- Sally Sawyer Feb 24, 1787 – Mar 7, 1792
- Phebe Sawyer Oct 1, 1774 – Jul 7, 1793
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