Tombstone Tuesday ~ William Woodbury and his wife Martha Woodbury, Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts

In Memory of

Mr. WILLIAM WOODBURY 2d.

Who departed this Life

Novr. 16^th 1788

In the 93d Year

Of his Age.

ERECTED

In Memory of Mrs

MARTHA WOODBURY

Wife of Mr.

WILLIAM WOODBURY

Who died April 27^th

1773, Aged 75

William Woodbury, son of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler, was born 11 July 1697 in Beverly, and died 16 November 1788 in Beverly.  On 2 September 1720 in Beverly he married, as his second wife, Martha Woodbury, daughter of Ebenezer Woodbury and Hannah Dodge.  They were third cousins. William was a miller. They had eleven children:

William, born 26 March 1721

Joanna, baptized 1 March 1723/24

Israel, born 4 January 1725/26

Ruth, born 4 January 1725/26

Zachariah, born 29 June 1730

Judith, baptized 6 May 1733

Lois, born 23 June 1735

Ebenezer, baptized 9 October 1737

Joseph, born 3 July 1739

Hannah, baptized 16 May 1742

Elisha, baptized 12 August 1744

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ William Woodbury and his wife Martha Woodbury, Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 23, 2017, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/05/tombstone-tuesday-william-woodbury-and.html: accessed [access date]).