Surname Saturday ~ WILDER of Hingham, Massachusetts

WILDER

Thomas Wilder, my 10^th great grandfather, never came to the New World, but his widow, Martha, came with her children on board the ship Confidence in 1638.  She settled in Hingham, where “Widow Wilder” was granted a house lot. 

According to an article in the NEHGS Register, Volume 31 [1887], pages 410 – 411, “A Page from the History of the Wilders” by Rev. Moses H. Wilder, he described how he went to England and researched Thomas Wilder, Esquire, who died there in 1634.  His widow was named Martha, and she had an estate at Shiplake, Oxfordshire until she came to America.  This was part of a book Rev. Wilder wrote Book of the Wilders: a further contribution to the history of the Wilders, from 1497, in England, to the immigration of Martha, a widow, and her family to Massachusetts Bay, in 1638, NEHGS 1985 (reprint of the original from 1878).  In this book Rev. Wilder traces the family back to 1497 to a Nicholas Wilder.

No one knows Martha's maiden name, nor her origins. 

Martha’s two sons, Thomas and Edward, preceded her to New England. She arrived with her two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, my 9^th great grandmother. Mary (about 1623 – 1658) who married Joseph Underwood.

My WILDER genealogy:

Generation 1: Thomas Wilder, son of John Wilder and Alice Keats, born 1579 and died 23 October 1634 at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England; married about 1618 in England to Martha Unknown.  Four children.

Generation 2:  Mary Wilder, born about 1623 in Shiplake, died 13 February 1658 in Watertown, Massachusetts; married about 1644 in Hingham, Massachusetts to Joseph Underwood.  He was born about 1614 in England and died 16 February 1676/77 in Watertown.  Joseph married second to Mary Howe.

Generation 3: Joseph Underwood m. Elizabeth Bond

Generation 4: Sarah Underwood m. John Bullen

Generation 5: Grace Bullen m. Ebenezer Healy

Generation 6: Comfort Haley m. Abigail Allen

Generation 7: Comfort Haley m. Rebecca Crosby

Generation 8:  Joseph Edwin Healy m. Matilda Weston

Generation 9:  Mary Etta Healey m. Peter Hoozerzeil

Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

My Surname Saturday post for UNDERWOOD:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/surname-saturday-underwood-of-hingham.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WILDER of Hingham, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 19, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/05/surname-saturday-wilder-of-hingham.html: accessed [access date]).

Surname Saturday ~ WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts

WARD

Samuel Ward, my 10^th great grandfather, was an early settler at Hingham, Massachusetts.  He might have been the brother of the Henry Ward who was buried there on 15 May 1642.  His first wife was Mary Hilliard, who died at Hingham 28 November 1638 ten days after giving birth to my 9^th great grandfather, Samuel, Jr.  Mary had given four children to Samuel, Sr.  His second wife was Frances Pitcher, the widow of a Mr. Reycroft.  Frances died in 1690 and is buried at Copp’s Hill Burial Ground in Boston.

Samuel first owned land in Hingham that is now part of the town of Hull, Massachusetts. He removed to Charlestown where he owned a lot of land and was known as “Mr.”  He died on 31 August 1682 in Charlestown, and his will mentions his wife, Frances, his son Samuel (and Samuel’s children), son-in-law Isaac Lobdell, and also his daughter Mary and her husband Ambrose Gale (brother of my 8^th great grandfather Edmund Gale (1640- 1716) of Beverly, Massachusetts).  He left an island between Hingham and Hull to Harvard College  [Middlesex County Probate, File #23742].  Samuel was buried at the Phipps Street Burial Ground in Charlestown.

His son, Samuel Ward, Jr., my 9^th great grandfather, died in the battle against Quebec in 1690 serving under Sir William Phips.  He married very well, first to my 9^th great grandmother, Abigail Maverick, the daughter of Moses Maverick and Mayflower passenger Remember Allerton.  His second wife was Sarah Bradstreet, widow of Richard Hubbard, and daughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet and the poet Anne Dudley (she was the daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley).   Their daughter, Martha Ward, my 8^th great grandmother, married John Tuthill of Ipswich in 1689. 

Some WARD resources:

Ethel Farrington Smith, “Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts, and her People”, New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 143, October 1989, pages 346 – 349.

Early Families of Hull, Massachusetts, by Ethel Farrington Smith, 2007, pages 197 – 199.

The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, Volume 2, pages 993 – 994.

My WARD genealogy:

Generation 1: Samuel Ward, born about 1605 in England, died 30 August 1682 in Charlestown, Massachusetts; married first to Mary Hilliard. She died on 28 November 1638 in Hingham, Massachusetts.  He married second to Frances Pitcher, widow of Mr. Reycroft.

Generation 2: Samuel Ward, son of Samuel Ward and Mary Hilliard, baptized 18 November 1638 in Hingham, died between 30 July 1689 and 12 March 1691 during the Expedition to Quebec, Canada under Sir William Phips;  he married first to Abigail Maverick, daughter of Moses Maverick and Remember Allerton (they had seven children).  She was baptized 12 January 1645 in Salem and died before January 1686.  He married second to Sarah Bradstreet, widow of Richard Hubbard, and daughter of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley.

Generation 3:  Martha Ward, born 16 September 1672 in Salem, died 17 August 1723 in Ipswich; married first on 3 December 1689 in Ipswich to John Tuthill, son of Simon Tuthill and Sarah Cogswell.  He was born 22 April 1666 in Ipswich, and died 27 February 1715 in Ipswich.  They had eleven children.  She married second to George Hart on 10 November 1722 in Ipswich.

Generation 4:  Martha Tuthill m. Mark Haskell

Generation 5:  Lucy Haskell m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 6:  Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey

Generation 7:  Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey  Jillings Homan

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 15, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/07/surname-saturday-ward-of-hingham-and.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ PHIPPEN of Hingham and Boston, Massachusetts

PHIPPEN

I had a lot of fun going over my old notes on this PHIPPEN family.  I had originally researched this lineage over 30 years ago, before the Great Migration series had been published and before Martin Hollick wrote his newest edition of New Englanders in the 1600s.  There were many new articles on this family I was able to find to update my records.

David Phippen (about 1585 – 1650), my 10^th great grandfather, was born in Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England to a family that was recorded in a pedigree chart originally drawn up in 1768 by James Ford of Salem, Massachusetts.  According to the Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Volume V, pages 455 and 456, this chart was damaged in the Revolutionary War.  Copies were remade in 1808 from the original, and recopied again and published in 1868.  Robert Charles Anderson stated “Given the number of times this chart has been copied, and the number of generations it is removed from the seventeenth century, both human generations and document generations, we have chosen not to incorporate in this sketch any information on David Phippen and his family found only on this chart.”

We know that David Phippen was the son of Robert Fizpen alias Phippen of Weymouth, Dorsetshire, and that his brother, George Fizpen alias Phippen named him as “my brother David Phippen in New England” in his will dated 20 July 1650.  David Phippen was aboard the ship Recovery which sailed from Weymouth on 31 March 1634.  He was listed as “Davide Phippen” and sailed with his wife, Sarah, and children Joseph, Rebecca, Benjamin, Gamaliel, Sarah and George. 

David Phippen was admitted as a freeman in Hingham, Massachusetts on 3 March 1636, and he removed to Boston about 1641.  His will was probated on 31 October 1650.  His wife remarried to George Hull  on 11 July 1654 and removed to Fairfield, Connecticut where she died before 25 August 1659, the date of her inventory.

David’s son Joseph (about 1615 – 1687) was my ninth great grandfather.  Apparently he was lost at sea because in the Great Migration book, Volume V,  page 454, there is a reference to a Suffolk County Deed 1:280 -81] in 1652 “Darathy Phippiney of Boston being in great want & distress, by reason of my husband’s absence and loss at sea,have for these causes & considerations me hereunto moving, especially for the relief of myself and children…”.  One of those children was Mary, my 8^th great grandmother.

Mary Phippen married John Wallis, a settler in Maine.  I previously blogged about the WALLIS family HERE.   There was a sketch of the Phippen family in the journal The American Genealogist, see below, with this reference to Mary and John Wallis on page 7:

Mary, bapt. at Hingham, 5 Mar. 1643/4; m. JOHN WALLIS, a fisherman, of Falmouth and Purpooduck; Selectman, 1674, and 1680; took refuge from the Indian War in Gloucester, Mass., where he d. 13 Sept. 1690.  His widow and son Josiah gave administration bond, 29 Mar. 1691, with David Phippen [her brother] as surety.  The Phippen chart states "John Watti left four sons and five daughters.  By Mary Phippen."  The name Watti is unknown, and undoubtedly an error in reading and copying the original chart.  John Wallis was closely associated wiht the Phippens.  he and his wife Mary had nine children, as stated on the Phippen chart, towo of whom were named Joseph and Dorcas (after Mary's parents).  [again, the chart referenced here with the mistake on the name WALLIS is the same pedigree chart that Robert Anderson doubted to reference above in his work The Great Migration because it had been copied too many times with mistakes].

For more information on the PHIPPEN family:

Fizpen or Phippen and Allied Families, by George D. Phippen, Salem, Massachusetts, 1870

 History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, by Donald Lines Jacobus, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1991, Volume 1, pages 207 and 476.

The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume V, pages 451- 456. 

The American Genealogist, Volume 17, pages 1 – 19

The PHIPPEN genealogy:

Generation 1: David Phippen, son of Robert Fitzpen alias Phippen and Cecile Jordan, born about 1585 in Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England, died before 31 October 1650 in Boston, Massachusetts; married to Sarah Unknown.  She remarried to George Hull and died before 25 August 1659 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Eight children.

Generation 2:  Joseph Phippen, born about 1615 in England, died about 1652; married to Dorothy or Dorcas, six children. 

Generation 3:  Mary Phippen, born before 5 March 1643/44 in Hingham, Massachusetts; married about 1660 to John Wallis.  He was born about 1627 probably in Cornwall, and died 13 September 1690 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  Nine children.

Generation 4:  James Wallis married Martha Stanford

Generation 5:  Elizabeth Wallis married John Andrews

Generation 6:  John Andrews married Martha Cogswell

Generation 7:  James Andrews married Lucy Presson

Generation 8:  Orpha Andrews married Joseph Allen

Generation 9:  Joseph Gilman Allen married Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 10:  Joseph Elmer Allen married Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 11 :  Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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The URL for this post is

http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/02/surname-saturday-phippen-of-hingham-and.html

Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Surname Saturday - Hodson

Hodson

Nicholas Hodson AKA Hodsdon first appears in the records of Hingham, Massachusetts when he was granted a house lot in 1636.   About 1639 he married Esther Wines, who was a cousin of a Charlestown, Massachusetts resident with the fantastic Puritan name of “Faintnot Wines” (don’t you love it!).    Faintnot Wines left legacies to Esther’s five living children in his will in 1664.  Esther is possibly a daughter of Thomas Wincoll and Ann Fleming?

About 1650 Nicholas Hodson and other families left Hingham for Cambridge Hill, which is now the city of Newton, Massachusetts.  By 1656 he was living in Kittery, Maine.    The first record where he appeared in Maine was in 1655 when he was absent from a meeting.  In 1659 he and several others were ordered to Boston for entertaining Quakers.  It is interesting that my other ancestors Anthony Emery and Richard Nason were also among those ordered to Boston .

There is a deed for his homestead, which was passed on to his son Benoni, and then to grandson Timothy, dated 17 May 1828 which notes “Reserving and excepting from this conveyance one eighth of an acre on the homestead first above mentioned, which has been heretofore used as a place of burial by our ancestors.”  This may be where Nicholas Hodson and his wife Elizabeth are buried. There was a man named Nicholas Hodson killed by Indians in 1704, but I don’t know if he is the same man, or a relative.

The Hodson Genealogy:

Generation 1:  Nicholas Hodson, born in England, died in Wells, Maine; married first about 1639 to Esther Wines,  who died on 29 November 1647 in Hingham, Massachusetts; married second to Elizabeth Wincoll, daughter of John Wincoll and Elizabeth Unknown, also widow of John Needham.   Six children by first wife, and six more by second wife.

1.  Esther Hodson, born 20 September 1640 (see below)

2. Mehitable Hodson, born November 1641, married Peter Welcome

3. Jeremiah Hodson, born 6 September 1643, married Anne Thwaits

4. Israel Hodson, born before 19 July 1646; married Ann Thompson

5. Elizabeth Hodson, born before 19 July 1646, probably died young

6.  Benoni Hodson, born before 29 November 1647; married Abigail Curtis

7.  Sarah Hodson, married John Morrell

8. Timothy Hodson, married Hannah Unknown, who married second Joseph Smith

9. John Hodson, married Rebecca Unknown

10. Joseph Hodson, married Tabitha Raynes

11. Lucy Hodson, married George Vickers

12. Hannah Hodson, married Nicholas Smith

Generation 2:  Esther Hodson, born 20 September 1640 in Hingham, Massachusetts, died 11 March 1723 in Kittery, Maine; married on 25 December 1663 in Dover, New Hampshire to Edward Weymouth.  Six children.

Generation 3. Mehitable Weymouth m. William Stacy

Generation 4. Mary Stacy m. John Thompson

Generation 5. Mary Thompson m. Richard Nason

Generation 6. Mercy Nason m. William Wilkinson

Generation 7. Aaron Wilkinson m. Mercy F. Wilson

Generation 9. Robert Wilson Wilkinson m. Phebe Cross Munroe

Generation 10. Albert Munroe Wilkinson m. Isabella Lyons Bill     

Generation 11. Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise Roberts (my grandparents)

It is difficult to follow the Hodson descendants, since the name changed spelling so many times.  The most usual spellings are HODSON, HODSDON, HODSDEN, HOGDSON,  or even HODGDON  but other variations can be found in the Maine and New Hampshire vital records and probate.   Town histories have been very helpful in helping me trace this line, such as Old Eliot by Willis, page 146 – 147, and Old Kittery and Her Families by Everett Stackpole, page 123 and also pages 529-530 (available to read online at Google Books).

There is a book from 1904 named Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Hodsdon-Hodgdon of Hingham, Mass and Kittery, Maine 1635 – 1904 by Andrew Jackson Hodgdon, available to read online at www.archive.org  (Library of Congress) and at www.openlibrary.org

There is a short sketch of Nicholas Hodson in the book A Tenth Generation Yankee from Maine by Nettie Gove Nicholson.   There is also a sketch in The Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by Savage, Volume II, page 440.   See also The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Davis, Libbey and Noyes, on page 343.

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, Massachusetts - Not so Wordless Wednesday



The Old Ship Meeting House
Hingham, Massachusetts 1681

 The congregation in Hingham, Massachusetts was first gathered in 1635. Part of the building that is still standing here was built in 1681, replacing the first very primitive meeting house. It is still being used as a church today. It is the only remaining 17th century Puritan meeting house in the United States. The roof and ceiling beams resemble a ship's structure, and it was probably built by ship's carpenters, which is how it got it's nickname "The Old Ship". The first minister was the Reverend Peter Hobart (1604- 1679), sister to my 9X Great Grandmother Rebecca Hobart (1611-1679) who married Edward Bangs (1591-1678).

typical little pew boxes

the pulpit

the view from the gallery

For more information:

The Old Ship Church Unitarian Universalist website http://oldshipchurch.org/

Behind the Old Ship Church is a lovely old burial ground, and last year I wrote a blog post about one of its more famous grave markers.... http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/tombstone-tuesday-angel-of-grief.html

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

The Unexpected Blog Story

William Wetmore Story- American Sculptor (1819 -1895)

Yesterday I posted a photo of the “Weeping Angel” or “Angel of Grief” on my blog for Tombstone Tuesday. All year I’ve been thinking about posting this photo, since it is beautiful, but I always had other genealogy stories to blog. Yesterday, I wanted to do another story, but we’ve been having a two day snowstorm here in Londonderry, and I couldn’t get outside to take the photo I wanted to blog about. I was snowbound again today, and then this story fell into my lap…

I received a few emails about the “Weeping Angel” photo. I’m not surprised because the sculpture of the Angel is very striking. Any photo of this tomb would look great! The Angel graces the tomb of Maria Hooper in Hingham, Massachusetts. One of the email messages I received was from John Hooper Dean, a descendant of Mrs. Hooper, asking permission to post my photo on his website and Facebook page.

We began an email conversation back and forth as this gentleman read my blog. He asked me about genealogy, and he was very interested in learning more about the family history of William Wetmore Story, the sculptor. By coincidence, I had done a little research last night on William Story, because I was wondering if he was related to the Chebacco Parish, Essex County, Massachusetts Story family. It turns out that the sculptor’s Story family was from Boston, and unrelated. But I was glad that I kept my research notes for John Hooper Dean.

John had been moved by a poem written about a Story daughter, Caroline, who had died at age six. The poem was lovely, and I’ll print it below. The sculptor’s father, Joseph Story, had written the poem, having lost five of his seven children in childhood. Two of those little children were named Caroline. I was able to find four generations of this family online, with help from the NEHGS vital records data base, several books from my library and other books available on the Google Book search, I could see that Joseph’s father, Elisha Story, had sixteen children including another Caroline who doesn’t appear to have survived childhood either!

A little bit of history, a little bit of fine art, and a little bit of literature… The sculptor had probably experienced his parent’s grief at the loss of his five siblings. He was born the same year that the second Caroline died. It is no small wonder that his sculpture is so realistic.

This was an interesting, unexpected bit of research for a snowy day!

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For Caroline
By Joseph Story

Sweet, patient sufferer, gone at last
To a far happier shore,
All thy sick hours of pain are past,
Thy earthly anguish o'er.

And yet, if aught or fair or bright
Might hope to linger here,
Long, long had shone thy modest light,
And never caused a tear.

In temper how serene and meek!
How touching every grace!
The smile that played upon thy cheek
Might warm an angel's face.

A heart, how full of filial love!
How delicate, how good!
Thy feelings served intent to prove
The bliss of gratitude.

So quiet and so sweet they death,
It seemed a holy sleep,--
Scarce heard, scarce felt, thy parting breath
Then silence fixed and deep

Who can the utter wretchedness
Of such a scene portray,
When the last look, the last caress
Is felt, and dies away?

I kissed thy faded lips and cheek,
And bent my knees in prayer;
Bent--but there was no voice to speak,
It choked in still despair.

Ah! never, never, from my heart
Thine image, child, shall flee--
'T’is soothing from the world to part,
'T’is bliss to think on thee.

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Gen. 1. William Wetmore Story, son of Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Wetmore, sculptor
b. 12 Feb 1819 at Marblehead
d. 7 Oct 1895 Vallambroso, Italy (Wikipedia)
m. 31 Oct 1843 to Emelyn Eldridge b. abt 1820 , d. 1895 age 74, in Rome, Italy
Children:
1.) Thomas Waldo Story b. 1855 d. 1915
2.) Julian Russell Story b. 1857 d. 1919
3.) Edith Marion Story (the Marchesa Peruzzi de’ Medici) b. 1844 d. 1907

Gen. 2. Joseph Story, son of Dr. Elisha Story and Mehitable Pedrick
b. 18 Sep 1779 Marblehead, bap. 26 Sep 1779 Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
d. 10 Sep 1845, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
buried Mt. Auburn Cemetery (statue sculpted by his son)
m. 1. 9 Dec 1804 to Mary F. Lynde Oliver d. 22 June 1805,
d. of Rev. Thomas Fitch Oliver and Sarah Pynchon
m. 2. 28 Aug 1808 at Boston to Sarah Waldo Wetmore, daughter of Judge William Wetmore, born 24 May 1784 at Salem, d. 22 Aug 1855 at Boston
Seven children:
Children:
1. Caroline b. June 1810, died Feb. 28, 1811
2. Joseph, b. June 1811, d. 19 Oct 1815
3. Caroline Wetmore, b. 4 Apr 1813, d. 1 April 1819
4. Mary, b. 9 April 1814, d. 28 Mar 1815
5. Mary Oliver, b. 10 Mar 1817, d. 28 Apr 1848
6. William Wetmore Story
7. Louisa, b. May 1821, d. May 10 1831

(children listed in Genealogical and Personal Memoir Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Vol. 1, by William Richard Cutter, pages 30-32 for the Story family.)

Gen. 3. Dr. Elisha Story , son of William Story, participated in the Boston Tea Party
b. 3 Dec 1743 at Boston
d. 27 aug 1805, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
m. 1. Pub. At Boston 14 May 1767, Ruth Ruddock, b. at Boston 5 Mar 1745/6, d. 21 Mar 1778 Marblehead (Marblehead VR) (d. the late John Ruddock, Esq, a. 32 y GR) and Tabitha Drinker
m. 2 Mehitable Pedrick, 29 Nov. 1778, Marblehead (Marblehead VR), d. of John Pedrick and Mehitable Stacy of Marblehead.
Children by first wife:
1. John
2. Tabitha, married 4 Nov 1792 to Nathaniel King Devereaux of Marblehead
3. Abiel, d. 12 Dec 1829, m. 2 Feb 1799 to Huldah Clough
4. Elisha
5. William, m. 6 Aug. 1797 to Betsey Patten
Children by second wife:
6. Joseph, b. 18 Sep 1779
7. Isaac bap. 2 Mar 1783 Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
8. Betsey, bap. 5 Dec 1784 Marblehead (Marblehead VR), m. Capt. Joseph White
9. Charlotte, bap. 19 Oct 1788, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)m. John Forrester
10. Carolina, bap 31 Oct 1790, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
11. Horace Culen, bap 4 Nov 1792, Marblehead (Marblehead VR), Horace C., died at New Orleans, rec. 1 Sep 1823, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
12. Franklin Howard, bap 22 Mar 1795, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
13. Frederick Washington, b. 5 Apr 1797, Marblehead (Marblehead VR)
14. Eloisa Adelina, bap. 20 Oct 1799, Marblehead, (Marblehead VR) m. John Tucker Mansfield
15. Hitty m. Capt. William Fettyplace
16. Harriet, m. Capt. Stephen White

Gen. 4. William Story, son of Elisha Story
b. 25 April 1720 at Boston, d. 24 Nov 1799 at Marblehead
m. 1. 13 Aug. 1741 Elizabeth Marion
m. 2. 11 April 1747, Joanna Appleton
m. 3. 29 Feb. 1776 Abigail Marshall

Click here to see the first blog post about the "Angel of Grief" statue in Hingham, Massachusetts:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/tombstone-tuesday-angel-of-grief.html 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The Unexpected Blog Story", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 20, 2010, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/unexpected-blog-story.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday- Angel of Grief

In the fall of 2008 I attended the Mayflower Congress in Plymouth, Massachusetts. We signed up for a tour of the area called "In the Footsteps of the Pilgrims." I took this photo at the Hingham, Massachusetts Cemetery behind the Old Ship Church. It is a memorial sculpture on the Maria Hooper grave, and is known locally as the “Angel of Grief.”

When I went to Google to look up “Angel of Grief” I found that the Hooper monument is a copy of an 1894 sculpture by William Wetmore Story, over his own grave in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. He originally named it “The Angel of Grief Weeping at the Dismantled Altar of Life.” It was a very popular Victorian memorial, and was copied in a style known as the “Weeping Angel.” At Wikipedia there is a listing of at least twelve replicas in the United States, including three in Texas.

A map of the Hingham Cemetery (#17 is the Angel of Grief”) http://www.hinghamcemetery.org/HinghamCemeteryMap.pdf

Wikipedia story of the Angel of Grief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Grief

Our Weeping Angel Foundation http://www.ourweepingangel.org by John Hooper Dean, great great grandson of Maria Hooper of Hingham. Click on “Why weeping angel” for a history of the sculpture.

UPDATE:   A few days after this story posted online, I learned more about this statue from a reader!  Click here for a second blog post:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/unexpected-blog-story.html 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday- Angel of Grief", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 19, 2010, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/tombstone-tuesday-angel-of-grief.html: accessed [access date]).