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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

John Houghton and Mary Farrar of Lancaster, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

Here Lies Buried
ye Body of 

John Houghton,
Esquir, As You
Are So Ware We. 
As We Are So
you Will be. 
Who Died February ye 
3d Anno Domini
1736/7 and
in ye 87th
Year of his Age.

John Houghton and his wife, Mary Farrar were my 8th great-grandparents.
They were buried in the Old Common Burial Ground, Lancaster, Massachusetts. 

Here Lies Buried
ye Body of 

Mrs. Mary Houghton ye
Wife of John
Houghton Esq'r.
Who Died Apriel
ye 7th Ano DM, 1724,
& In ye 76 Year of Her Age.

Photos were taken in April 2012. During a second trip, I noticed a new large stone with the cemetery name.