Jeremiah Bacon 1724

headstone

HERE LYES BURIED
Ye BODY OF
JEREMIAH BACON
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE MAY Ye 30th
1724
IN Ye 29th YEAR
OF HIS AGE.

The gravestone displays an abstact winged head carved in the style of Nathaniel Fuller of Plymouth. The image is obscured by lichen and surface deterioration. The gravestone has sunk so part of the inscription is below ground. The photo was supplied by Kevin Murphy September 2010.


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