Hi Listers: Read this on MA-MIDDLESEX List, and thought you might have interest: Sent by Janice Farnsworth, Farns10th@aol.com: Subj: HUNT TOMBSTONES AT GROTON, MA Date: 3/7/99 1:06:14 AM Eastern Standard Time From: Farns10th@aol.com To: MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com Surname: HUNT Source: Epitaphs from the Old Burial Ground, Groton, MA by Dr. S. A. Green p.l92 Tombstone (Willow Tree and Urn) William H. Hunt d. Mar l7, l838 AEt 8 ms & 8 ds. Joseph W. Hunt d. Feb 27, l844 - sons of George and Jerusha Hunt. "These buds of promise left earth's fading flow, That they might beautify celestial bowers, At heaven's glorious gate they've entered in, Unmarked by sorrow or unstained by sin" F. Park (fecit.) p.206 Tombstone (Willow Tree and Urn) Miss Mahala Hunt died July 11, l846 AEt. 45 "For death to her spirit was gain Since Christ was her life when below." p.204 Tombstone (Willow Tree and Urn) Martha daughter of John A. and Susan M. Hunt died Sept. 7, l845, AEt 4 weeks. p.2l4 Tombstone (Garland) Parted below, United above. Susan M. wife of John A. Hunt, died Nov. 22, 1854 aged 29 y'rs. "Still her memory sweetly lingers, Still we listen for her song; But no more that form shall greet us, Seated with the fireside throng. Weep not that the link is severed. Soon the chain will perfect be. And the hearts once more united, When the fettered soul is free." _____________________________________________________________ Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth Dave Hunt Member, NEHGS, ESOG, US GENWEB Coordinator for Lynnfield, MA web-site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7006/lynfld.htm Genealogist for Manning Association(Descendants of William Manning of Cambridge, MA - (ca. 1634), The Manning Manse (Built in 1696), No. Billerica, MA, on the National Register of Historic Places.