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Last NameELDRED
First NameSUSANAH
Maiden 
Relation 
Cemetery NumberPO058
Cemetery NameELDRED-SANFORD STONES
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1674c
Death Day0
Death MonthDEC
Death Year1675
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map 
Stone Materialslate
Conditionfair
Shapefancy top
Carvingmisc. other
Legibilityfair
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2008
CarverSCROLL 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. ]
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