Tombstone Tuesday- More from Marblehead, Massachusetts

This

Stone is set up to

Perpetuate the me-

mory of Mr.

JOSEPH HOMAN,

Who departed this

Life Decr. 3d 1789

Aged 80 year &

7 months

An honest man's the noblest

work of God

[Joseph Homan was born 27 May 1708 in Marblehead,

he was the brother to my 7x Great Grandfather,

Peter Homan (b. 1699)]

ERECTED in memoryof

SARAH HOMAN, wife

of Mr. Joseph Homan

who, after a life adorned

with the profession &

practice of Christianity

suddenly expired April

20th 1783 Aged 73 years

My flesh shall slumber in the ground

the last trumpet's joyful sound

Then burst the chains with sweet surpriz

And in my Savior's image rise.

[Sarah Bray was born about 1710 and

married Joseph Homan in Marblehead on 17 September 1730]

Here lyes ye Body of

JOSEPH HOMAN only son

of Mr. JOSEPH & Mrs. SARAH

HOMAN who departed this

life Feby. 28th 1759 in ye

22nd year of his age

The Homan Family at Marblehead's Old Burial Ground

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