Tombstone Tuesday ~ A triple tombstone! Mr. John Burns and two wives named Ann

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Bedford, New Hampshire

Our glass is run

ERECTED                      LIKEWISE                  ALSO    

In Memory of                 In Memory                In Memory

Mrs. Ann                       of Mr. John                of Mrs. Ann

Burns,                         Burns                          Burns

wife of Mr.                   who departed             wife of Mr. 

John Burns                     this Life                  John Burns

who departed                March ye 20th         who departed 

this Life                         D. 1788; In             this Life July

                                  the 77th year                    1745

                                       of his age              In the 21st

                                                                      year of her age.

Dear friends for us, don't Mourn nor weep,

We are not dead but here do sleep;

Upon our easy bed of Clay,

Untill the resurrection day. 

                     

John Burns was born in County Donegal, Ireland of Scots ancestry.  He came to Bedford with his first wife, Ann, who died one year after they arrived.

The Ann with the missing date is Anna McQuesten, daughter of William McQuestion and Margaret Arbuckle of Litchfield, New Hampshire.  Ann McQuesten was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.  She died in 1790.  They had ten children together.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ A triple tombstone!  Mr. John Burns and two wives named Ann", Nutfield Genealogy, June 23, 2015, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/tombstone-tuesday-triple-tombstone-mr.html:  accessed [access date]).