Cemetery Sleuthing Program - June 1st
New Ipswich Historical Society
Cemeteries hold invaluable clues to genealogical research. Etched in stone are names, symbols and abbreviations that not only tell us more about our ancestors but also about their place in time. “A Beginner’s Guide to Cemetery Sleuthing,” the final session of virtual genealogy programs hosted this spring by the New Ipswich Historical Society and supported by the Stearns-Burton Lecture Fund, takes place on Wednesday, June 1, at 7:00 p.m. Research librarian, author, and genealogy enthusiast, Erin Moulton will introduce participants to resources and strategies to help locate their ancestors’ burial places, make the most out of a cemetery visit, and decipher a variety of symbols that appear on many of New England’s historic gravestones. This program is free and open to the public. To register:
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Gilman Spaulding
Note the willow and urn motif on his grave
On this day - May 28, 1908
James Roger diary entry
28th (Thursday)
Dull, threatening rain wind east. Fair cool day. David at Walker’s in forenoon. Hardy’s in afternoon. I filled John Preston’s vase and planted asters &c in our front garden. Got vestry ready for sewing circle and filled hall lamps for Grange tonight. Got letter from Jessie.
William Jurian Kaula diary
28 May 1897 - no diary entry
Oldest Graveyard in New Ipswich
I'd be curious to see an ancestral chart of the Prestons. In the 1950s John Preston was the moderator at town meetings. He was a graduate of Harvard and highly respected by all. I was 10 when a Mrs. Preston moved in with us for a yr. I never knew why or what her relation to other Prestons in town was.
I have been on volunteer teams restoring old cemeteries and have neve seen a 180 yr old gravestone in that good of a condition. Where is this grave?