i took a picture today of a headstone in historical cemetery#45 it is the oldest headstone i have ever seen the date on it is 1768 as the date of death i looked on a few other sites and could not find any this old it is in my member gallery under hist cemetery#45 along with others i have also put it on this post
I've seen cemeteries with every headstone being earlier than that. But maybe they're all birth dates. I HAVE seen 16something to 17something at least once, though.
If preservation efforts had never happened, we'd have a lot of early stones with blank faces.
i agree i found a lot of those today
In the Norwichtown cemetery there are stones that date to 1709, but the photo quality of pics I took of them are pretty bad so they're hard to read.
i know there are older headstones out there and i know there i just thought it was cool to see this for myself it was kinda like finding buried treasure lol :ph34r:
Quote from: Megster on July 07, 2006, 08:02:54 AM
In the Norwichtown cemetery there are stones that date to 1709, but the photo quality of pics I took of them are pretty bad so they're hard to read.
The one with Samuel Adams? I'll see about getting out there next weekend if the weather's nice. Gotta work tomorrow.