His parents were Hermon and Lydia (Farrington) Abbot. He died of Quinsy. (source: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Andover, MA to the end of the year 1849)
His parents were Hermon and Lydia (Farrington) Abbot. He died of Quinsy. (source: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Andover, MA to the end of the year 1849)
Inscription
epitaph (as inscribed, includes sp. errors):
"Why should we say 'tis yet two soon,
To seek for Heaven or think of death,
A flower may fade before 'tis noon,
And I think this day may (*lose?) my breath."
*[The last stanza of the verse seems to have been scraped away due to an earlier mistake on the cutters part and obscures some of the words in that line.]
Gravesite Details
Quinsy: an old term for tonsilitis (see: http://www.pennyparker2.com/disease.html)
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