Gideon Brockway - West Granville, MA
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neoc1
N 42° 04.731 W 072° 56.294
18T E 670543 N 4660587
The grave of Gideon Brockway, who died of smallpox is located in West Granville Cemetery in West Granville, MA
Waymark Code: WM14HPX
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2021
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A headstone with unusual lunette engravings marks the grave of Gideon Brockway. The lunettes contains a the engraved image of a death head. To the left is an hourglass with its sand in the bottom indicating time has run out. To the right is the image of a coffin.
The headstone is inscribed:
Sacred to the
Memory of
Gideon Brockway
Who died of ye
Small Pox at
Granvill Decemr
ye 8th AD 1784
In ye 61st year of
his Age
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