This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire
JOSEPH COGSWELL
Died
Nov. 22, 1848
AGED 86
ABIGAIL COGSWELL
HIS WIFE
Died
April 11, 1825
AGED 62
ALSO
MARY COGSWELL
THEIR DAUGHTER
Died
Feb. 26, 1844
AGED 47
Joseph Cogswell, son of Jonathan Cogswell and Mary Appleton,
was born 1 December 1757 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died 22 November 1843
in Derry, New Hampshire. He married
Abigail Cleveland, daughter of the Rev. John Cleaveland and Mary Dodge, on 21
May 1788 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Both
Joseph and I are descendants of the original immigrant Cogswell family, John
Cogswell (1592 – 1669) and Elizabeth Thompson, from Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire,
England.
Abigail Cleveland Cogswell, his wife, was born 28 December
1762 in Ipswich, Massachusetts and died 11 April 1824 in Londonderry, New
Hampshire. The town of Londonderry split
into the two towns of Londonderry and Derry in the time between the two
deaths. Abigail’s mother was Mary Dodge,
who was my first cousin 8 generations removed.
Mary’s mother was Mary Choate, my 8th great aunt, married to
Parker Dodge and sister of Anne (Choate) Varney (1691 – 1739), my 7th
great grandmother.
This tombstone also lists their daughter, Mary, who died in
1844. Joseph and Abigail had seventeen
children! Elisabeth, Jonathan, David,
Joseph II, John Cleveland, Abigail, Abigail again, Mary C., a third Abigail,
Thomas, Elisabeth again, Moses, Aaron, Thomas again, Ebenezer, William, and
Edward Parker.
This was originally a standing stone, but it now lies flat
on the ground in the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire. It is broken in at least three places.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Joseph Cogswell, died 1843, Derry, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 18, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/02/joseph-cogswell-died-1843-derry-new.html: accessed [access date]).
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