Ela Family - Tombstone Tuesday

The Ela Family gravestones are at Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire.  The Ela family lived in the area where Burger King and Rt. 93 are today.  It was a large farm. The first Ela in Londonderry was Samuel, who removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts about 1755.  The David below, married Nancy Fisher, widow of William Cunningham and had five children.  John married Sarah Ferson and had one child, who died young.  (see Parker's History of Londonderry, page 272)

DAVID ELA

DIED

Feb. 19, 1822

Aged 63 yrs.

NANCY

WIFE OF

DAVID ELA

and daughter of

DEA. SAMUEL AND SARAH FISHER

Died Feb. 19, 1837

Aged 90 yrs.

[note:  husband and wife died on the same day, 15 years apart]

In Memory of

Mr. JOHN ELA

who died

Jan. 4th 1811

Et. 43

Look here my friends so here I lie

As you are now so once was I

As I am now so you must be

Prepare for death and follow me

In

memory of

Sarah, wife of

John Ela,

who died

April 23, 1816

aged 66

 http://www.ela-family.org/israelelagen.pdf  From the Ela Family website, a link to a book Genealogy of the Ela Family, Descendants of Israel Ela of Haverhill, Massachusetts, by Reverend David Hough Ela, 1896
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