Tombstone Tuesday ~ Father and Son memorialized together on the Island of Martha's Vineyard

This tombstone was photographed at the West Tisbury Village Cemetery in Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

In Memory of

Mr. JOSEPH ALLEN

deceas'd  Jan. 5th 1798

Aged 74 Years & 6 Mo.

Mr. ZADOCK ALLEN

Son of

Sd. JOSEPH & PATIENCE his Wife

deceas'd in Auxcaeys Hispaniola

Feby. 15th 1797 Aged 33 Years

This Monument is jointly erected

Joseph Allen, son of Joseph Allen and Patience Bourne, was born July 1723 and died 5 Jan 1798.  He married Patience Nye on 26 September 1746 in Sandwich, Massachusetts and had seven children.  She was born 3 August 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts and died 13 February 1817, the daughter of Benjamin Nye and Lydia Freeman.  She is buried nearby her husband and son.

Joseph Allen is my first cousin, 9 generations removed. His father, Joseph Allen, is my 9th great uncle. I descend from his brother, John Allen (1682 - 1767) who married Margaret Holmes of Ireland.  She was the daughter of Rev. William Holmes, the famous Presbyterian minister of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. He was one of the few Scots Irish settlers to preceed the 1718 migration from Northern Ireland.

Aux Cayes is sometimes known as Les Cayes, a seaport in Haiti, which is on the island of Hispanola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic share this island west of Puerto Rico).

These ALLENs are descended from the Allen family of Braintree, Massachusetts.  You can read more about this lineage at this link: 
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/01/surname-saturday-allen-of-braintree.html 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~  Father and Son memorialized together on the Island of Martha's Vineyard", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 6, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/tombstone-tuesday-father-and-son.html: accessed [access date]).