Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Tombstone Tuesday -- Joseph Church (1638-1711) Buried in Little Compton, Rhode Island

I have collected a number of gravestone photographs from my own camera and from Find A Grave memorials over many years, and thought I would share them one at a time for Tombstone Tuesday.

Here is the gravestone of my 8th great-grandfather, Joseph Church (1638-1711) in Old Commons Burial Ground in Little Compton, Rhode Island:


The inscription from the photograph is:


HERE LYETH Ye BODY
OF IOSEPH CHURCH
ESQe, HE DECEST, Ye
5 DAY OF MARCH
1711 IN Ye 73 YEARE
OF HIS AGE,


The source citation for this gravestone is:

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 July 2020), memorial page for Joseph Church, I (1638–5 Mar 1711), Find a Grave Memorial no. 59699854, citing Old Commons Burial Ground, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by db (contributor 47321789) .

Thank you to db for creating this Find A Grave memorial and to 
Scout for taking this photograph.

Joseph Church (1638-1711) and Mary Tucker (1640-1710) 
are my 8th great-grandparents.   Samuel was the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Warren) Church, and Mary was the daughter of John and Ann (--?--) Tucker.  They married in 1660 in Hingham, Mass., and had 10
 children, including Deborah Church (1677-1752), my 7th great-grandmother, who married Samuel Gray (1681-1712) in 1699.


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