Tombstone Tuesday ~ Baby John Newton Clark, 1815, Londonderry, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire.  At the time of the burial, this was Londonderry, New Hampshire.

John Newton

son of Capt. John &

Mrs. Sarah Clark,

died Sept 8, 1815

aged 3 months.

Not father's sighs nor mother's tears

Could save me from the tomb,

Nor would I for more years

If Christ has called me home. 

John Clark (son of Robert Clark and Letitia Cochran) and Sarah Taylor (daughter of Samuel Taylor and Eunice Lancaster,  and granddaughter of immigrant settlers Matthew and Jennet Taylor) were married in Londonderry, New Hampshire on 4 March 1802.  They had eight children and three died in infancy.   One of their daughters was a famous missionary you can read about at this link HERE.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Baby John Newton Clark, 1815, Londonderry, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 20, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/tombstone-tuesday-baby-john-newton.html: accessed [access date]).