Sarah Bodfish 1765

full stone - 1982 tympanum - 2000

Here lyes buried ye
Body of Mrs Sarah
Bodfish the widow of
of Mr John Bodfish
dec'd Octo ye 8th 1765
in ye 82d year of
her Age

The gravestone displays a Medusa head carved in the style of the Soule family of Plymouth. The left photo taken about 1982 is from the Farber Gravestone Collection owned by the American Antiquarian Society. The right tympanum photo was taken in 2000.


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