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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah Sargent and Mary March, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

These tombstones were photographed at the Point of Graves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire



Here lies Interred
the Body of
Mrs. MARY MARCH
Relict of
Dctr. CLEMENT MARCH
who Departed this Life
April 7  1759
AEatis 80



Here lies Interred the Body of
Mrs. SARAH SARGENT
who Departed this Life
August 21st 1771
AEtat 74
In honor of & Filial Respect
& Affection to her Memory
this Stone is here Placed
by her Children.
The Memory of the just is Blessed.




Sarah Pierce was the daughter of Captain Joshua Pierce and Elizabeth Hall (the sister of Mary Hall March).  This aunt and her niece were buried side by side, and the stones look like they were made by the same carver. It is interesting that both women were married to doctors. 

Sarah first married John Winslow and had three children with him before he died in 1731.  She married second to Dr. Nathaniel Sargent.  

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