Tombstone Tuesday - Benjamin Bulkley, died 1822 at Wethersfield, Connecticut

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

In Memory of

Mr. BENJAMIN

BULKLEY, who

died August 16th

1822.

Aged 91 years.

Benjamin Bulkley, the son of Charles Bulkely and Mary Sage, was born 1 August 1731.  He married twice, first on 3 November 1757 to Susanna Kirby who died on 27 May 1776, and then on 6 February 1777 to Elizabeth Brownell, who died on 30 January 1816.  He survived both wives and died on 16 August 1822 in Farmington, and was buried at the Wethersfield Village Cemetery. 

Benjamin Bulkley is the great grandson of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, Massachusetts, who is my 10th great grandfather.  He descends from the Reverend's son Gershom, and grandson, Edward.  

Click here to see my BULKELEY lineage:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/surname-saturday-bulkeley-of-concord.html   

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday - Benjamin Bulkley, died 1822 at Wethersfield, Connecticut", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 8, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/tombstone-tuesday-benjamin-bulkley-died.html: accessed [access date]).