Abigail Davis 1733

headstone full stone 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 top left photo shows the headstone. The photo was supplied by Kevin Murphy September 2010. The top right photo and the bottom photo show the footstone. The footstone photos taken about 1982 are from the Farber Gravestone Collection owned by the American Antiquarian Society.

The headstone and footstone are carved in the style of Nathaniel Fuller of Plymouth. Each stone displays a heart shaped head with a heart shaped mouth.
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