Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Patience Converse, buried 1707 in Woburn, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Burial Ground in Woburn, Massachusetts


  MEMENTO                      FUGIT
  MORI                                HORA

HERE LYES Ye BODY
OF PASHENCE CONVER
DAUGHTER OF MAJOR
JAMES & HANNAH CONVER
WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE JULY Ye 25th
1707  IN Ye 21
YEAR OF HER AGE.


Patience Converse, my 6th great aunt,  was born on 6 November 1686 in Woburn, and died unmarried 23 July 1707.  She was the daughter of Major James Converse (1645 – 1706) and Hannah Carter (1651 – 1691).  She came from a family of nine siblings, and I descend from her brother, Robert Converse (1677 – 1736) who married Mary Sawyer.  

My CONVERSE lineage:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/09/surname-saturday-converse-of-woburn.html   


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Patience Converse, buried 1707 in Woburn, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 11, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/tombstone-tuesday-patience-converse.html: accessed [access date]). 

2 comments:

  1. Hey, Cousin Heather! Thanks for posting this. I finally got around to figuring out that we are 9th cousins, once removed. Yay!! Keep up the awesome work.

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  2. Hey, Cousin Heather! Thanks for posting this. I finally got around to figuring out that we are 9th cousins, once removed. Yay!! Keep up the awesome work.

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