Tombstone Tuesday ~ Toddler killed by a Sleigh, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1789

This tombstone was photographed at the Wethersfield Village Cemetery, in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Hannah Daughter

of Mr. John & Mrs

Unice Standish

who was killed by 

a Sleigh Janry 20th

1789

Aged 2 Years 

6 mos

& 20 Days

Oh, what a tragedy this must have been!  Did little Hannah fall from the sleigh, or was she struck by the running vehicle?  It doesn't matter, because her parents obviously grieved her loss, and erected this lovely gravestone.

I photographed this stone because I was struck by the epitaph, and I'm also a descendant of Myles Standish, the Mayflower passenger.  However, this child was not a distant cousin since this Standish family descends from Thomas Standish (1612 - 1692), an immigrant from Lancashire, England to Wethersfield.  

Hannah Standish was the daughter of John Standish (1735 - 1798) and Eunice Tryon (1763 - 1837).  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Toddler killed by a Sleigh, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1789", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 18, 2018, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/12/tombstone-tuesday-infant-killed-by.html: accessed [access date]).