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    1. Peter Rich - Worcester, MA
    2. Adele Just
    3. Here are some items from Ancestry.com which DOES have the Inscriptions for the Burial Ground on Mechanic Street. -- Adele Cemetery: Burial Ground On Mechanic Street. Stone: 258 Name: Silvia Rich Death Date: 14 Nov 1814 Age: age 13 Relative: dau:Peter Rich Cemetery: Burial Ground On Mechanic Street. Stone: 259 Name: Silvia Rich Death Date: 10 Sep 1840 Age: aged 74 years Relative: wif:Peter Rich Inscription: (Stone broken and epitaph missing.) "Peter Rich (colored) died Oct. 1854, aged 94. Mr. Rich was an honest and industrious citizen. He worked for Mr. Waldo and Gov. Lincoln, and for Messrs Rice and Miller, almost his whole life. . . . He was a mechanic, and when he had a job of ditching to do in water, he would make for himself a pair of wooden boots, which answered a very good purpose."--Hersey. Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 20 Name: Charles William Clough Death Date: 1861 Relative: grandson:Peter Rich, Sr Colored. Grandson of Peter Rich, Sr. Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 73 Name: Peter Rich, Sr. See note to No. 259. [Inscription for Stone 259 copied below.] Cemetery: Old Burial Ground On the Common Stone: 259 Name: Mr. Zephaniah Rice Death Date: 10 May 1730 Age: in ye 30th year of his age Inscription: Here lyes the Body of Was selectman and town clerk, 1729, Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 74 Name: Peter Rich, Jr. Death Date: Nov 1866 Age: age 73 Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 75 Name: Clara W. Rich Death Date: Dec 1863 Age: age 52 Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 76 Name: Lucy S. Rich Death Date: Aug 1852 Age: age 33 Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 78 Name: Mary Ann Scott Death Date: 1843 Age: age 34 Relative: dau:Peter Rich, Sr Inscription: Colored Cemetery: Burial Ground on Mechanic Street Stone: 99 Name: Mrs. Phillis Winslow Death Date: 07 Apr 1836 Age: age 91 Relative: mot:Peter Rich, Sr. Inscription: Colored. Cemetery: Burial Ground On Mechanic Street. Stone: 168 Name: Jeffery Hemenway Death Date: 15 Aug 1819 Age: aged 82 Inscription: In Memory of Colored. Came to Worcester from Framingham in 1778. Bought of Col. Ebenezer Lovell a small place on what is now May street, where he lived some years. Served in the Revolutionary army, 1780, 81.

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