Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth Langdon Peirce, died 1732 Portsmouth, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Point of Graves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

HERE LYES ye BODY OF

Mrs. ELIZABETH PEIRCE

WIFE TO Mr. GEORGE

PEIRCE DEDd MAY

ye 4th  1732 IN ye

45th YEAR OF HER AGE.

Elizabeth Langdon, daughter of Tobias Langdon and Mary Hubbard, was born 16 September 1688 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died 4 May 1732 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  She married George Peirce, son of Daniel Peirce and Elizabeth Milward,  and they had seven children:  Mehitable, Tobias, Sarah, George, Dorothy, Mary and Martha.

 For more on the Peirce family see:

The Peirce Family Papers, held at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/peirce_family.pdf   

The Pierce Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1880 is available online at archive.org and also completely scanned digitally at Google Books. See page 235 for George Peirce and his wives.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth Langdon Peirce, died 1732 Portsmouth, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 24, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/tombstone-tuesday-elizabeth-langdon.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Joseph Langdon, 1749, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Point of Graves Burial Ground, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Interd here are the Remains of

Mr. Joseph Langdon Jur Mercht

(Son of Capt Mark Langdon)

Obt. 30th Octobr 1749  AEtatis 25

How Lov'd how Valu'd once, avails ye not.

To whom related, or by whom begot.

A Heap of Dust alone remains of thee;

T's All thou art & All that We must be.

Replacement 2004

This new stone marker is a replacement for the older stone just behind it.  You can see that the carving and epitaph have disappeared from the original tombstone.  How did the descendants know what to put on the replacement?  The old epitaph is completely gone!

Joseph Langdon was born in 1724 and died 30 October 1749, son of Captain Mark Langdon and Mehitable Jackson of Portsmouth.  His grandfather, Tobias Langdon (1630 - 1725) is my 1st cousin 10 generations removed.  Our common ancestors are his grandparents Henry Sherborne and Elizabeth Gibbons.

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