Tombstone Tuesday ~ Agnes Fisher, died 1747, Londonderry, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire.  It had been cleaned by the Friends of Forest Hill in 2009.  If you would like to see a before and after photograph, please click on this link to the entry at the Find A Grave website.

HERE LIES BURIED

THE BODY   OF

MRS AGNES THE

WIFE OF MR SAMUEL

FISHER,  WHO

DEPARTED THIS 

LIFE APRIL 17th

1747 IN THE 21st

YEAR OF HER AGE

Agnes Taylor was born 6 March 1725 in Londonderry, New Hampshire, the daughter of Janet Wilson and Matthew Taylor.   She married Deacon Samuel Fisher, who was born in Ireland on 29 July 1722 and died 10 April 1806 in Londonderry.  Samuel was married three times, and Agnes was his first wife.  He also married Agnes Wilson  and Sarah Barber (both buried at the Old Hill Cemetery in Londonderry with Samuel).  He had a total of 12 children, 76 grandchildren and 53 great grandchildren according to an obituary posted at his memorial at Find a Grave.  Click here to read his memorial and obituary. 

Agnes died 17 April 1747 in Londonderry.  She was only 21 years old, and she died in childbirth.  Her daughter Nancy Fisher was born the same day as her mother's death, and she grew up to married David Ela.  Nancy lived to be 90 years old, and died on 19 February 1837 and is buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery, too, not far from her mother's grave.

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Ela Family - Tombstone Tuesday

The Ela Family gravestones are at Forest Hill Cemetery, Derry, New Hampshire.  The Ela family lived in the area where Burger King and Rt. 93 are today.  It was a large farm. The first Ela in Londonderry was Samuel, who removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts about 1755.  The David below, married Nancy Fisher, widow of William Cunningham and had five children.  John married Sarah Ferson and had one child, who died young.  (see Parker's History of Londonderry, page 272)

DAVID ELA

DIED

Feb. 19, 1822

Aged 63 yrs.

NANCY

WIFE OF

DAVID ELA

and daughter of

DEA. SAMUEL AND SARAH FISHER

Died Feb. 19, 1837

Aged 90 yrs.

[note:  husband and wife died on the same day, 15 years apart]

In Memory of

Mr. JOHN ELA

who died

Jan. 4th 1811

Et. 43

Look here my friends so here I lie

As you are now so once was I

As I am now so you must be

Prepare for death and follow me

In

memory of

Sarah, wife of

John Ela,

who died

April 23, 1816

aged 66

 http://www.ela-family.org/israelelagen.pdf  From the Ela Family website, a link to a book Genealogy of the Ela Family, Descendants of Israel Ela of Haverhill, Massachusetts, by Reverend David Hough Ela, 1896
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