Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nicholas and Prudence Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts

These tombstones were photographed at the Dodge's Row Burying Ground 

in North Beverly, Massachusetts. 

NICHOLAS DODGE, 

died 

November 21, 1857, 

aged 

81 yrs and 4 mos

PRUDENCE E., 

widow of 

NICHOLAS DODGE, 

died July 25, 1869, 

aged 80 years

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord

Nicholas Dodge, son of Nicholas Dodge and Hannah Cole, was born 1 July 1777 in Wenham, Massachusetts.  He married first to Lydia Cleaves on 23 May 1801 in Wenham.  She died on 27 September 1805.  He married second to Prudence Edwards on 21 July 1808 in Wenham, and had eight children.  Nicholas Dodge died on 2 November 1857 in Wenham and was buried  next to his two wives at the Dodge’s Row Burying Ground in North Beverly.  [I didn't photograph Lydia's tombstone]. 

Prudence Edwards was born 1 May 1789 in Wenham, Massachusetts, the daughter of Abraham Edwards and Prudence Dodge.  She is my distant cousin through our common Allen, Herrick, Tuck, Browning and Williams ancestors.  

Prudence and Nicholas Dodge are buried in the Dodge’s Row Burying ground with other close and distant Dodge relatives.  I wrote a blog post on November 24, 2015 about the tombstone of Augustus Dodge, their son, and his wife, Martha Knowlton, at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/tombstone-tuesday-augustus-and-martha.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Nicholas and Prudence Dodge, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 8, 2015  (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/12/tombstone-tuesday-nicholas-and-prudence.html: accessed [access date]).