Approximate birth date calculated from the headstone transcription. Her surname is presently unknown. Transcription from:
Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894.
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894.
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Approximate birth date calculated from the headstone transcription. Her surname is presently unknown. Transcription from:
Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894.
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Memorial Inscriptions from Cemeteries in the East Parish Barnstable, including Dimmock's Lane, Meetinghouse or Cobb's Hill, Lothrop's Hill the ancient Burying ground, & Parish Line. From Jan. 1683 to 1894.
Unknown creator, calligraphed manuscript, listings alphabetical by family name, with additional notes written in the margins by an unknown hand.
No publishing information.
"Bacon", page 5.
Repository:
Strugis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1. Lothrop Collection Manuscripts, folder 6
2. Manuscript digitally available online through the Library's "Town and Local History Collection".
Inscription
From the transcription:
"Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Desire Bacon, died April y^e 25th, 1747 in y^e 23^d year of her age."
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