Tombstone Tuesday ~ James Cochran, poetic hero, buried 1795 in Derry's Forest Hill Cemetery

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery behind the First Parish Meetinghouse in East Derry, New Hampshire.  At the time of the burial, this land was in the town of Londonderry.

IN

Memory of

Mr. James Cochran

who died

Febr. ye 17th 1795,

in ye 85th year

of his age.

Reader, behold as you pass by

As you are also once was I.

As I am now, you must be

Prepare for death & follow me.

Last month I posted a poem written by Windham, New Hampshire's poet "The Rustic Bard", Robert Dinsmoor.  This poem was "Jamie Cochran: The Indian Captive" based on a true incident that took place in 1725 near the Casco Bay in the state of Maine.  The hero of this poem was a teenaged boy, Jamie Cochran, born in Northern Ireland, who survived being captured by Indians. He lived with his family near the present day Brunswick, Maine, but removed to Suncook, New Hampshire when his father left Maine, and eventually settled in the Scots Irish town of Londonderry.  

You can read this post and poem at this link (along with some genealogical information):

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/10/jamie-cochran-indian-captive-poem-by.html   

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~  James Cochran, poetic hero, buried 1795 in Derry's Forest Hill Cemetery", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 13, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/11/tombstone-tuesday-james-cochran-poetic.html: accessed [access date]).