Jeremiah Stinson, Esq. a Gruesome Death in 1809 Dunbarton, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Dunbarton Center Cemetery, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire.

ERECTED

to the Memory of

JEREMIAH STINSON, ESQ.

Son of 

Mr. Archibald Stinson 

[the rest is underground]

From pages 200 - 201 of The History of Dunbarton, by Caleb Stark, 1860:

"JEREMIAH STINSON, Esq., son of Archibald, before named, graduated at Dartmouth College; read law; opened an office in Dunbarton, and married a daughter of the Rev. Walter Harris.  He was several years townclerk and a member of several important committees employed by the town.
     His death was occasioned by sliding down from his haymow and coming in contact with a pitchfork-handle concealed in the hay, which he being quite corpulent, entered his body nearly eleven inches. After lingering a few days in great distress, he died Sept. 28, 1809, aged 60 years [sic]. His widow afterward became the wife of William Green, then a trader in town, and afterward cashier of the Pemigewasset Bank at Plymouth. [New Hampshire]"

The book Sketches of Dunbarton, by Ella Mills, 2020:
"One of the earliest college graduates, Jeremiah Stinson, having studied law, opened an office in his native town, but devoted the most of his time to agriculture. He met with an accidental death at the age of thirty-six years."

Jeremiah Stinson, the son of Archibald Stinson and Sarah Page, was born 4 April 1775 in Dunbarton and died 28 September 1809 in Dunbarton.  Archibald Stinson was born 3 August 1740 and died 3 July 1824, aged 85, in Dunbarton.  Jeremiah Stinson married Clarissa Harris in Dunbarton on 9 December 1807, just two years before his death.  She was the daughter of Rev. Walter Harris of Dunbarton, born on 17 June 1790 in Dunbarton, and she died on 18 April 1817 and is buried in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, the wife of Mr. William Green.  They had no children.

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Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Jeremiah Stinson, Esq. a Gruesome Death in 1809 Dunbarton, New Hampshire - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 1, 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/09/jeremiah-stinson-esq-gruesome-death-in.html: accessed [access date]).