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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