These tombstones were photographed at the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Hancock, New Hampshire.
JOHN EMERSON,
in whose memory
this monument
is erected,
died Nov. 14, 1809
AEt. 70
CATHARINE EMERSON,
wife of
John Emerson
died
Jan. 24, 1809
AEt. 64
The memory of the just is blessed.
John and Catharine Emerson are my 5th great grandparents. John Emerson is the son of Brown Emerson (1704 - 1774) and Sarah Townsend (b. 1705) of Reading, Massachusetts. He was from a long line of ministers and deacons, and his great grandfather was the Reverend Joseph Emerson of Concord, Massachusetts, who married Elizabeth Bulkely, the daughter of the famous Reverend Edward Bulkely, the first minister of Concord. John was baptized on 5 April 1739 in South Reading and he served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in Captain Thomas Eaton's company at the Lexington Alarm in 1775. John moved his family from Reading to Ashby and Townsend, Massachusetts, and then to New Ipswich, New Hampshire and Reading Vermont. He settled in Hancock in 1793 on property number 22 between Mount Skatutahkee and Little Skatutahkee.
John married his wife, Catharine Eaton, on 20 December 1764 in Reading, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Noah Eaton (1704 - 1770) and Phebe Lilley (1706 - 1786) of Reading. She had an extensive obituary which outlined her life published in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine United, Volume 2, issue 2, (August 1809) pages 151 - 152. I wrote a blog post about her, with a transcription of this obituary, at this link: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/amanuensis-monday-obituary-of-katherine.html
John and Catharine were the parents of eleven children, with seven sons and two daughters surviving childhood. Three of the sons became ministers. Since this was a very religious family, I'm thinking that perhaps John wrote Catharine's obituary. She died in December of 1808, and he died less than a year later on 14 November 1809. I descend from their son, Romanus Emerson (1782 - 1852), who was not a minister, but instead became a self-proclaimed infidel (atheist). He was quite famous for being a non-believer, and even belonged to a society of infidels in Boston and faced many legal issues due to his beliefs.
To see my entire EMERSON lineage, click this link:
I have blogged many times about Romanus Emerson, but this last blog post contains links to some of the other stories about him:
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Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "John and Catherine (Eaton) Emerson - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted 17 November 2020, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/11/john-and-catherine-eaton-emerson.html: accessed [access date]).
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