Tombstone Tuesday ~ Deacon Caleb Wallis, died 1780 ringing the church bell, and his wife

This Tombstone was photographed in the "Ancient Burial Ground" or Abbott-Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts

IN

Memory of

Deacon CALEB WALLIS

who suddenly departed

this life Febry 9th, 1780

Aged 53 years

Come hither mortals cast an eye,

And go they way prepare to die;

Here read your doom for die you must

One day like me return to dust.

In Memory of

Mrs. Rebecca Wallis

wife of

Deacon Caleb Wallis

who departed this Life,

Sepr. 25th, 1786

Aged 62 years.

Deacon Caleb Wallis was born 14 May 1727 in Beverly, and died suddenly on 9 February 1780 while ring the “old South bell”.  He married Rebecca Giles on 24 November 1752 in Beverly.  She was the 2x great granddaughter of the immigrant Edward Giles (about 1610 – about 1656), who was also my 10^th great grandfather.   She was the daughter of Eleazar Giles and Rebecca Chapman, born on 5 November 1734 in Beverly, and died 25 September 1796 in Beverly.  They had at least one son, Bartholomew Wallis (1753 – 1828) who married Judith Wood.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Deacon Caleb Wallis, died 1780 ringing the church bell", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 13, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/tombstone-tuesday-deacon-caleb-wallis.html: accessed [access date]).