Her husband Benjamin Yard made the following entry regarding her death in the family Bible record:
"This Day october ye five Day one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two on Monday about twelf a Clock at night Departed This Life my Dear wife Ann Yard, Aged fifty one years five months & Ten Days, Married to me twenty Eaigh [eight] years two months Seventeen Days. On wensday ye Seven Day Parson Spencer preach[ed] her funeral Sarmon the Text was Job 7 Chapt and 16 Verse."
See: "Family Records: Benjamin Yard" by Joseph R. Klett, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 64:137-143 (Sep. 1989).
Note: "Parson Spencer" was Rev. Elihu Spencer, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
Also, Ann's and her twin brother John's birth date is reported as 5 Feb. 1722 by genealogist Charles R. Hutchinson in his 1917/19 manuscript Pearson genealogy (at New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, and available on FHL microfilm). As his source for this date is unclear, Ann is shown with the birth date calculate from her age at death as recorded by her husband.
Her husband Benjamin Yard made the following entry regarding her death in the family Bible record:
"This Day october ye five Day one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two on Monday about twelf a Clock at night Departed This Life my Dear wife Ann Yard, Aged fifty one years five months & Ten Days, Married to me twenty Eaigh [eight] years two months Seventeen Days. On wensday ye Seven Day Parson Spencer preach[ed] her funeral Sarmon the Text was Job 7 Chapt and 16 Verse."
See: "Family Records: Benjamin Yard" by Joseph R. Klett, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 64:137-143 (Sep. 1989).
Note: "Parson Spencer" was Rev. Elihu Spencer, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
Also, Ann's and her twin brother John's birth date is reported as 5 Feb. 1722 by genealogist Charles R. Hutchinson in his 1917/19 manuscript Pearson genealogy (at New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, and available on FHL microfilm). As his source for this date is unclear, Ann is shown with the birth date calculate from her age at death as recorded by her husband.
Gravesite Details
Ann's funeral was conducted by the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton. She was probably buried in the churchyard, where her husband and his parents, and her sister Theodosia Hunt were buried.