Lydia Broadbrooks 1802

full stone tympanum

In Memory of
LYDIA
Wife of
EBEN'R BROADBROOKS
who departed this Life
March 3d 1802
in the 77th Year
of her Age

The carved image is a flying winged skull. Note how the wings conform to the curve of the tympanum. Ebenezer Broadbrooks (1802) has a very similar gravestone. These gravestones have been attributed to the carver William Bennett of Boston.

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