This tombstone was photographed at the Cemetery on the
Plain, Windham, New Hampshire
JOHN HEMPHILL
Died Aug. 26, 1848
AEt 82 yrs
LYDIA
his wife
Died Nov. 8, 1856
AEt 86 yrs
John Hemphill is the son of Robert Hemphill and Eleanor Clark,
and the grandson of Nathaniel Hemphill from Antrim, Northern Ireland, the
immigrant, and his wife Isabella Robinson.
John Hemphill was born 10 June 1766, and he died in Windham on 26 August
1848. He married Lydia Merrill, who was
born in Salem, New Hampshire on 17 August 1770 to her parents Amos Merrill and
Lydia Giles. John and Lydia Hemphill had
eight children: Polly Ellenwood (m.
Giles Merrill), Sarah, John (married Mary Gibson), Sarah G. (married Mark W.
Temple), Ruth Barnett (m. Washington W. Temple), Joseph, Amos M. (married
Rebecca Eaton), and Silas.
For more information:
Leonard Allison Morrison, The History of Windham in New
Hampshire, a sketch of the Hemphill family on pages 575 – 584.
To read more about the John Hemphill family, see this blog
post by Derek Saffie,
Nathaniel Hemphill’s tombstone:
Isabella (Robinson) Hemphill’s tombstone:
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ John Hemphill and wife, Lydia, buried in Windham, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 27, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/tombstone-tuesday-john-hemphill-and.html: accessed [access date]).
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