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Person Details
Last Name
CARR
First Name
SAMUEL
Maiden
Relation
[H/O MARY GREENE; S/O JOHN & WAITE]
Cemetery Number
NT032
Cemetery Name
GOAT ISLAND BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1694
Death Day
19
Death Month
JUN
Death Year
1739
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
Stone Material
slate
Condition
poor
Shape
horizontal marker
Carving
no carving
Legibility
poor
Number of Graves on Stone
2
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
1993
Carver
JOHN STEVENS III
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
"and his daughter Waite died the same day aged 13 years." "Not human skill, nor prayers, nor tears could save, from the dark chamber of the silent grave. Thus are we from fondest hopes beguiled -- the tenderest husband and the sweetest child. In this distinguished da of both bereft, the happiest wife a mournful widow left. Does to their much loved memory bestow this stone, sad monument of real woe." [both died of small pox] Leaning against Newport Historicl Society wall. Originally buried on Goat Island, possibly a small pox cemetery.
Transcribed By
JES;GHR;LRC