Richard Austin - Suffield, CT
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neoc1
N 42° 00.452 W 072° 36.503
18T E 698050 N 4653379
The solitary roadside grave of smallpox victim Richard Austin is located on the west bank of the Connecticut River just off River Blvd. in Suffield, CT.
Waymark Code: WMY35Y
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2018
Views: 1
The headstone of Richard Austin contains an hourglass in the lunette and is inscribed:
In Memory of
Mr. Richard
Austin
who died
with ye smallpox
Jan. 3, 1761
aged 61 Years.
There is also a foot-stone which is inscribed:
Mr.
R.A.
1761
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