Two Bangs Babies, died in Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday

 This tombstone was photographed at the Ancient Burial Gound in Brewster, Massachusetts.

In Memory of                               In Memory of

    Isaac Sparrow Bangs                           Sukey Bangs       

                    who died april 12 1795                   who died octr 20th 1794     

            Aged one year                             Aged 2 Months     

    11 Months & 3 Days                        &12 Days         

Children of Mr Dean and Mrs Eunice Bangs

Happy the babes who privileged by fate

To shorter labor and a lighter wight

Received but yesterday the gift of breath

Ordered tomorrow to return to death. 

This sad, broken, and reset tombstone was dedicated to two children of Captain Dean Bangs (1756 - 1845)  and his wife Eunice Sparrow (1756 - 1818).  The carvings show a winged soul and also a fallen dove/bird.  Eunice was the daughter of Isaac Sparrow and Mary Hopkins (a Mayflower descendant).  They had two sons named Isaac Sparrow Bangs (1793 - 1795 and 1798 - 1874).  Captain Dean Bangs was a descendant of Edward Bangs of Chichester, England who came to the Plymouth Colony in 1623 on board the ship Anne.  

To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Two Bangs Babies, died in Brewster, Massachusetts for Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, July 15, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/07/two-bangs-babies-died-in-brewster.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Captain Jonathan Sparrow

Sorry, this is not Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

These gravestones were photographed at the 

Cove Burial Ground, Eastham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. 

HERE LYES BURIED

YE BODY OF CAPT

JONATHAN SPROW

AGED 73 YEARS

DIED MARCH YE 21ST

1706/7

HERE RUSTS THE DUST

OF

RICHARD SPARROW

AND HIS WIFE

PANDORA

WHO CAME FROM KENT COUNTY ENGLAND

ABOUT 1633 AND SETTLED IN PLYMOUTH

ABOUT 1650 THEY CAME TO EASTHAM

AND SETTLED NEAR THIS PLACE

WHERE HE DIED JANUARY 8, 1660

HERE ALSO RESTS

JONATHAN SPARROW

ONLY CHILD OF RICHARD

TOGETHER WITH HIS FIRST TWO WIVES

REBECCA BANGS & HANNAH PRINCE

SETTLED IN THE PART OF EASTHAM

NOW EAST ORLEANS WHERE

AFTER FILLING MANY OFFICES OF HONOR

AND TRUST IN BOTH CHURCH AND STATE

HE DIED MARCH 21, 1706 AGED 73 YEARS

IN MEMORY OF

THESE EARLY SETTLERS OF OUR COUNTRY

WE THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE ERECTED

THIS TABLET IN THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR

OF OUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE A.D. 1876

The slate on this stone
has begun to split, but it looks like
it was repaired with resin

Captain Jonathan Sparrow married Rebecca Bangs on 26 October 1654.  She was the sister to my 8x great grandfather Jonathan Bangs (1644 - 1728).  His other wife, Hannah Prince/Prence, was the granddaughter of William Brewster (1566/7 - 1644), a passenger on the Mayflower.  

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo