Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph and Mary Simonds, Lexington, Massachusetts

This double tombstone was photographed at the Old Burying Ground in Lexington, Massachusetts


                                           Here lyes Buried                      Also here lies Buried
                                           ye Body of Mr.                         ye Body of Mrs
                                          Joseph Simmonds                    Mary Simmonds
                                          Who Died  Nov.                      Wife of Mr. Joseph
                                             ye 12  1733                           Simmonds who Died
                                           Aged 81 yrs                              Decem ye 5
                                                                                                1732  

Joseph Simonds was my 7th great grand uncle, brother to James Simonds (1658 - 1717), my 7th great grandfather.  They were the sons of William Simonds and Judith Phippen, immigrants from England.  Joseph Simonds married Mary Tidd on 7 March 1681 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  She was the daughter of John Tidd and Rebecca Wood.  The Simonds and the Tidds were both from Woburn, but this couple removed to Cambridge Farms (a contiguous town), which became known later as the town of Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph and Mary Simonds, Lexington, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 9, 2015
( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/tombstone-tuesday-joseph-and-mary.html: accessed [access date])



1 comment:

  1. I love these old tombstones, amazing that some of them have survived.

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