Elizabeth Gerrish Greenleaf, died 1712, Newbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the First Parish Burial Ground in Newbury, Massachusetts. 

HERE LYES INTERRED

Ye BODY OF

ELIZABETH GREENLEAF

WIFE TO CAP. STEPHEN

GREENLEAF DECEr. ye 5th

OF AUGUst 1712 IN Ye 58th

YEAR OF HER AGE.

Elizabeth Gerrish, daughter of William Gerrish and Joanna Lowell, was born 10 September 1654 in Newbury.  She married Stephen Greenleaf, son of Stephen Greenleaf and Elizabeth Coffin, on 23 October 1676 in Newbury. They had ten children born in Newbury. Stephen remarried to Hannah Tristram on 19 September 1713. 

Elizabeth and Stephen Greenleaf are my 9th great grandparents.  I descend from their daughter Elizabeth, born 12 January 1677 in Newbury, who married Henry Clarke on 7 November 1695 in Newbury.  Elizabeth died in 1724. 

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Elizabeth Gerrish Greenleaf, died 1712, Newbury, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted 31 October 2023, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/10/elizabeth-gerrish-greenleaf-died-1712.html: accessed [access date]).