Abigail Davis 1733

full stone tympanum tympanum

(headstone)
HERE LYES Ye BODY
OF Mrs ABIGAIL
DAVIS WIFE TO
Mr JOHN DAVIS WHO
DEC'D AUG'st THE
25th 1733 IN
THE 20th YEAR
OF HER AGE

(footstone)
MRS ABIGAIL DAVIS
THOUGH WORMS & PUTREFA
CTION SHALL CONSUME
THIS MORTAL BODY
IN Ye SILENT TOMB
I SHALL REVIVE &
FROM Ye GRAVE ARISE
& SEE MY GOD WITH
THESE CORPOREAL EYES

The headstone and footstone are carved in the style of Nathaniel Fuller of Plymouth. The two top photos of the footstone taken about 1982 are from the Farber Gravestone Collection owned by the American Antiquarian Society. The bottom photo of the headstone tympanum taken in 2000 shows more lichen growth and surface erosion.
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