Castle Hill at the Crane Estate

Castle Hill at the Crane Estate 

(everything you want to know)

Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts

This estate is where my husband likes to visit the most, as a matter of fact, he took me here almost 50 years ago. We subscribe to the organization, Trustees of Reservations, that maintains the house, thus, free admission. If the house isn't open for touring, you usually can walk the grounds any time. You may have seen the mansion in a movie before.

After these photos, there are two links, each for a year we went to see the house decorated at Christmas.

From this point, you can walk straight down to the ocean.

The above photo was taken many years earlier. A huge storm took down many of the trees. You can clearly see the difference in the above photos.

Very old photo I found in images from The Trustees for this castle.

  

https://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2017/12/castle-hill-at-christmas-which-of-17.html

https://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-crane-estate-at-christmas-no.htm

Taking a Break, but not From Summer

After five and a half years of blogging, and writing 1,133 posts, plus have 69 drafts in the can, I've decided to take a break. Genealogy research will continue, but no blogging about it, perhaps I'll do some posts about Lowell. My decision was made last week, and that is the reason I haven't posting anything this past week. Even with the lovely surprise of having my recent post selected by four fellow blog writers as one of their weekly favorites, I still decided to stop for a while.

My gratitude to those four women is shown by my putting their blog links below. It is my hope you will click on them and search around their sites. For my readers, I appreciate knowing many are still reading my posts, so with my time off, you are getting time off as well...I'm not cluttering your email box. Have a great summer. The photos on this post were taken last week.

Gail Dever of Genealogy à la carte

Jo Henn of Climbing My Family Tree

Jana Last of Jana's Genealogy and Family

Linda Stufflebean of Empty Branches on the Family Tree

Eleazer Wheelock of Medfield, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

Eleazer Wheelock

Born: May 3, 1654, Medfield, Norfolk Co., MA

Died:  Mar. 24, 1731, Medfield, Norfolk Co., MA

Buried:  Vine Lake Cemetery

Eleazer was my 9th great-grandfather.

Cemetery stone for Eleazer Wheelock. Since I wasn't familiar with the cemetery and knew it was huge, I asked my friend, Sharon if she could help me. She lives in the town, so she enlisted the help of her friend, and he was kind enough to put an orange stick marker at the headstone for Eleazer. It is very hard to read because the sun casts a shadow. Sharon gave us a tour and provided a lot of cemetery information, including showing us an impressive stone belonging to her ancestors.

Medfield Vine Lake Preservation Trust has an excellent monthly newsletter called, Quiet Voices. In the March 2016 issue, there was a write-up about Eleazer and the excellent photo above. They kindly provided the option to save the photo, which I did, and is seen here. Thank you to the Preservation Trust. Feel free to subscribe to this newsletter, with exceptional articles and photos.

Vine Lake Cemetery has a lovely lake.

Sharon Gillis and my husband.

Below is the tombstone of Sharon's Samuel Morse of Dedham and Medfield.

Google map, showing Vine Lake Cemetery on the upper right-hand side.

Marston of Salem, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

HERE LYETH BURIED

Y^e BODY OF

JOHN MARSTON SENIOR

AGED 66 YEARS

DEC^D DECEMBER Y^e

19 1681

Buried in the Charter Street Cemetery aka Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts

He was my 9th great-grandfather.

His foot stone was discovered when I pulled back a lot of the vine growing on the fence.

Two photos of the head and foot stones.

Photos taken May 23, 2015.

The above diagram is from the book, Charter Street Cemetery Burial Records: Salem, Massachusetts by William Carlson, Compiler, (Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 2009). I've used this book quite a few times, since I have five ancestors buried in this cemetery.

On pg. 38, you can see the entry for my ancestor, "Marston, John I. Born about 1615 Died December 19, 1681 age 66 years. The son of Thomas and Margaret (Salter) and the husband of Alice (Eden). D 163 (Note: D 163 is the section in the cemetery.)"