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1770-1780
GUSN-3267
An arched crest carved with the head and wings of a stylized angel above an inscription.
tombstones (sepulchral monuments)
carving (processes)
incising
stone (rock)
Stone
Carved
Incised
TOMBSTONE
Incised on the front center is: ""Here lies the body of/Ebenezer Badger/Cogswell son of/Thomas Cogswell, Esq/ who departed this life/Octo 12th AD 1778 in/ the first year of his age.""
Cogswell, Ebenezer Badger
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
22.75 x 1.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1051
New Hampshire (United States)
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