A very primitive gravestone for Elizabeth Balch 1730 ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Cemetery in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Here Lyeth ye body

of Elizabeth Balch

Who died June

the 20th 1730 in

the 53 year of

her Age.

back view of the stone

A close up photo of death's head

Elizabeth Ober was baptized in Beverly, Massachusetts on 9 December, 1677, the daughter of Richard Ober and Abigail Woodbury.  She married John Balch on 5 October 1700.  He was the son of John Balch and Hannah Veren, and my 1st cousin 8 generations removed (we are both descendants of the immigrant John Balch (d. 25 May 1648 in Beverly), and his son Benjamin Balch (1628 - 1715) and his wife Sarah Gardner.   Elizabeth Ober's mother, Abigail Woodbury, is a granddaughter of William Woodbury and Elizabeth Patch.  William Woodbury (1587 - about 1677) is my 12th great uncle, brother of John Woodbury (1583 - about 1643) my 11th great grandfather.

John Balch and Elizabeth Ober had two children born in Beverly:  the first was Joanna Balch, born on 30 April 1703 and married Andrew Ellingwood, the second was Andrew Balch, born on 27 February 1707 and married Bethia Lovett.

Elizabeth Balch's footstone

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A very primitive gravestone for Elizabeth Balch 1730 ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 3, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-very-primitive-gravestone-for.html: accessed [access date)].