Tombstone Tuesday ~ Abigail Peavey Cario, died 1767 Portsmouth, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Point of Graves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Here lies Buried

the Body of

Mrs. ABIGAIL CARIO wife

of Mr. WILLIAM CARIO

who departed this Life

Seper 17th 1767

in the 41st Year of her Age.

Abigail Peavey, daughter of William Peavey and Sarah Oliver, married William Cario on 5 July 1759 in Boston, Massachusetts as his first wife.  He married second to Lydia Croxcroft in Portsmouth, who had four children baptized at the South Church in Portsmouth.

William Cario was a famed silversmith.  You can read more about him at this blog post: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/william-cario-father-and-son-silversmiths/ 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Abigail Peavey Cario, died 1767 Portsmouth, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 17, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/tombstone-tuesday-abigail-peavey-cario.html: accessed [access date]).