I have looked at the ist part of the Stowell Book and can't locate a reference to the cemetary , by name, but I may have missed it. They lived on Fort Hill st. A photo of the house has been circulated around some years ago. I think I still have mine. Dave Rafferty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:23 PM Subject: [STOWELL-L] Name of a cemetery > I do not have a copy of W. H. H. Stowell's book > in front of me, but to the best of my recollection, > he mentions in the book a cemetery or two in > Hingham. (I was in Hingham to take the pictures of > the Old Ship Church in 1980s). What I want to know > is the name of the cemetery where our ancestor > Samuel Stowell and wife Mary Farrow are believed > to be buried in Hingham. If I remember correctly, > he and other Stowells lived on Hill Drive? Correct? > I would like to put the correct information in my FTM. > > Have a great weekend (temperature 49 degrees down in > Washington, DC, but the air is wonderful.... > > Regards, > Jean Boutcher > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! >

The earliest Stowell I've found buried at the Old Ship Church, when I visited it in 1983, was #8 in the book - Samuel Stowell of the 2nd generation. He died in 1756. I asked at the time about older graves and was told that in the early years, most likely when our Samuel #1 died in 1683, that the settlers would often bury their dead at night, in unmarked graves, for done in the daylight the natives would sometimes dig up the graves looking for booty or to desecrate the dead. If they did have any sort of marker, they were made of wood and thus in a few years would rot away. How much of that is truth and how much conjecture I don't know but it does sound plausible. Tim Stowell 50 in Chattanooga, but without a working furnace - tis a bit nippy in the house. At 02:55 PM 11/9/03 -0500, you wrote: >I have looked at the ist part of the Stowell Book and can't locate a >reference to the cemetary , by name, but I may have missed it. They lived >on Fort Hill st. A photo of the house has been circulated around some years >ago. I think I still have mine. Dave Rafferty >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:23 PM >Subject: [STOWELL-L] Name of a cemetery > > >> I do not have a copy of W. H. H. Stowell's book >> in front of me, but to the best of my recollection, >> he mentions in the book a cemetery or two in >> Hingham. (I was in Hingham to take the pictures of >> the Old Ship Church in 1980s). What I want to know >> is the name of the cemetery where our ancestor >> Samuel Stowell and wife Mary Farrow are believed >> to be buried in Hingham. If I remember correctly, >> he and other Stowells lived on Hill Drive? Correct? >> I would like to put the correct information in my FTM. >> >> Have a great weekend (temperature 49 degrees down in >> Washington, DC, but the air is wonderful.... >> >> Regards, >> Jean Boutcher