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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

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]). 

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