1726 Tombstone 👼 Stratford, CT USA Olde Colonial Graveyard 3

Peeking over the top of these two perfectly aligned tombstones I gaze across Centuries...

Just off of Main Street in downtown Stratford, Connecticut..

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Look at the streaks of color through the slate in the photo below.. really nice effect.

Mr. Benjamen Brooks and Mrs. Mary Brooks
Their’s are among the very few stones that face East..

Note the same streaks within the rock on the rough hewn backsides of the slabs beyond them. Those were smoothed and engraved facing West.

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Really old primitive style and spelling!

Here
Lyeth • intred •
The • Boody • of •
Mary•Wheler
Who•departed•
This Life in •
march•the•4th•day
in•the•year•1726
???•17th•year•
of•her•age•

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If I’m reading her age correctly (could be 27+) Mary was at least born in 1709 if not earlier.

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Crazy stuff I live in Stratford lol

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Crazy stuff I live in Stratford lol

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