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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
_______
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.

Joseph Kilborn
Dorothy Kilborn
It really helped to have this listing so we could see a few words written in the stone.
The two stones are above and below. At least I have some landmarks to find them again.

On the second visit, I had a listing from the city clerk and this Google map. I had no idea the cemetery was this large.

If you want to follow this line, I'm sharing a part of my database on RootsMagic.

The All caps are my direct lines for Mary and John only.




The Joseph Kilborn below was who I was looking for.