Life From The Roots: Sometimes you Need to Make a Second Trip to a Cemetery, Thanks to the Sun!

The Life From The Roots blog topics have changed several times since I began this blog in 2009. I initially wrote only about the family history I had been working on for 20 years. Years later, I was into visiting gardens, historical homes, churches, libraries that had genealogical collections, historical societies, war memorials, and travel/tourism places. I also enjoy posting autographs and photos of famous people I've met or have seen.

Along with my New England roots, other areas include New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Please check out the labels on the right side for topics (please note, they need work). Below the labels and pageviews is a listing of my top nine posts, according to Google. Four of them pertain to Lowell, MA. These posts change often because they are based on what people are reading.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Sometimes you Need to Make a Second Trip to a Cemetery, Thanks to the Sun!

Rowley Burial Ground, Main Street
Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts

The above photo was taken on my first visit to the Cemetery, which was in combination with my Library visit in October 2018. The parking lot is for the Town Hall, Library, and Cemetery, which makes it very convenient to visit all places, especially for a researcher. I had no idea the cemetery was as large as the Google map below indicates. Wow, I felt I needed directions to get to where my Kilborn was buried, so I was pretty glad to discover that the Town Clerk has plenty of records. I love that this is a flat cemetery, made for easy walking. The red arrow points to the Rowley Library. My post yesterday was about my visit to the Town Clerk's office.

Main Street, Rowley, Massachusetts

1630 1930

ROWLEY BURIAL GROUND

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The Burial Ground set apart

at the settlement of the

town of Rowley in 1630. Here

are buried Ezekiel Rogers,

Samuel Phillips, Samuel

Shepard, Edward Payson and

Jedediah Jewett. The earliest

ministers of the town, and

nearly all the original settlers.

Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission

On this trip, we knew where the stones were and hoped we could see them. The first photo is the before and after for Joseph Kilborn.

On our first visit (May 2019), we could see the flat stone for Joseph Kilborn but it was impossible to read (see above). So, we returned to the Cemetery on August 10, 2019, and the sun was in our favor, even though it was hard to read.