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.

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Monday, September 15, 2014

Phillips Brooks Memorial, North Andover, Massachusetts

Phillips Brooks

Memorial in North Andover, Massachusetts

Phillips Brooks

1835 -- 1893

Great Preacher

Citizen Patriot

To Commemorate the Nobility of the Man

The Richness of his Intellectual Gifts

And the Complete Consecration of His Life

To the Cause of Jesus Christ

This Monument is Erected by Men and Women

of Many Creeds

The North Parish of North Andover Church

(and below)

From the Andover Memorial Hall Library site on Historic Homes, I share this information on Rev. Samuel Phillips. "Rev. Samuel Phillips came to Andover in 1710 as the pastor of South Church, an office he held for 62 years. His son, the Honorable Samuel Phillips, went into trade and built the Phillips Brooks House near North Andover Center in 1752. It stands across the street from the Parson Barnard House, built in 1715, and the Old Burying Ground, one of the few intact 18th century cemeteries in New England. Part of the Anne and Simon Bradstreet home that burned in 1666 was built into the back of the Phillips Manse. The Rev. Phillips Brooks, who wrote the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem."

Mr. Brooks was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. See HERE. I will visit the grave located on Mimosa Path, Lot 1288 on my next visit to the cemetery to take a photo.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Jane (__) Jenison Brooks, Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

Below is my 7th great-grandaunt's tombstone. She married first to Peter Jenison (see last week's post), and after his death, she married Joseph Brooks. She, her 2nd husband and child were buried together in this cemetery.

Here Lies Buried

The Body of

Mr^s Jane Brooks

Consort of

Joseph Brooks

Who Dec^d Nov^r

The 16 A D

1753 in The 70

Year of Her Age.

Here Lyes Interred

The Body of Mr.

Joseph Brooks of Lincoln

Who Departed This Life

Sept 17 1759 in Y^e

78 Years of His Age.

(Joseph Brooks was my first cousin 9 times removed.)

Here Lies Buried

Y^e Body of

Joseph Brooks Jun^r

Only Son of M^r

Joseph and Mr^s Jane

Brooks Who Dec^d

Septm^br Y^e 7^th

Anno Dom 1749

in y^e 24^th Year

of His Age.

Brooks plot above.
When you turn around, you'll see this lovely field.

While driving around, I came across a memorial to five British soldiers, shown below. Since the cemetery is in Lincoln, the town where Paul Revere was captured by the British soldiers (then released). I shouldn't have been surprised to see it because other markers for British soldiers are in Concord as well.