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Person Details
Last Name
ELDRED
First Name
SUSANAH
Maiden
Relation
Cemetery Number
PO058
Cemetery Name
ELDRED-SANFORD STONES
Birth Day
0
Birth Month
Birth Year
1674c
Death Day
0
Death Month
DEC
Death Year
1675
War
Gravestone Details
Section
Lot
Map
Stone Material
slate
Condition
fair
Shape
fancy top
Carving
misc. other
Legibility
fair
Number of Graves on Stone
1
Stone Height (inches)
Stone Width (inches)
Exists?
Last Seen Date
2008
Carver
SCROLL CARVER
Notes/Misc Details
Notes
age 14 months. Found in a patio at 297 Black Point Lane. Now at Portsmouth Historical Society. SUSANAH eLDReD AGeD 14 MONetHs DIeD IN DeSeMBeR 1675 [This gravestone was found in a patio in Portsmouth in 1998. Thomas Eldred (S/O Samuel & Elizabeth (Miller)) b. 8 Sep 1648 Cambridge, MA; d. 1726 North Kingstown m. (~1670) Susanna Cole (1653c-1726) D/O John & Susannah (Hutchinson) Cole and GD/O William and Anne (Marbury) Huchinson (the famous religious leader and a Portsmouth connection.] [THEORY: Susanah Eldred was born in Wickford in 1674 and went with her mother Susannah (Cole) Eldred and her siblings to relatives/friends in Portsmouth in 1675 when King Phillip's War broke out. ]
Transcribed By
JES;BA