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Joseph Lewis Churchill

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Joseph Lewis Churchill

Birth
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
Aug 1842 (aged 36–37)
Burial
Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.956376, Longitude: -70.6664749
Plot
C West 80
Memorial ID
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Joseph was a sailor and died at
sea on the passage from Wilmington,
N. C. to Jamaica.
He married May 27, 1830 Abigail Merrill
Goodwin, of Falmouth, Maine.
She died August 1846.

Their children:
1) Charles Thomas, b. June 16, 1833.
2) Louisa LeBaron, b. June 22, 1835;
m. Benjamin F. Dyes, Feb. 22, 1854.
3) Sarah Ann, b. Nov. 2, 1837;
m. George F. Merrill, Jan. 3, 1856.
4) Abby Lewis, b. Sept. 12, 1839;
m. David Hall, Aug. 4, 1856
5) Helen Harvey, b. Oct. 15, 1841;
d. Aug. 30, 1842.

Source:
The Churchill Family in America
Compilers: Gardner Asaph Churchill,
Nathaniel Wiley Churchill
Published by the family of
Gardner Asaph Churchill

Note: Joseph is referred to as
"Captain" in the above mentioned
book.
Joseph was a sailor and died at
sea on the passage from Wilmington,
N. C. to Jamaica.
He married May 27, 1830 Abigail Merrill
Goodwin, of Falmouth, Maine.
She died August 1846.

Their children:
1) Charles Thomas, b. June 16, 1833.
2) Louisa LeBaron, b. June 22, 1835;
m. Benjamin F. Dyes, Feb. 22, 1854.
3) Sarah Ann, b. Nov. 2, 1837;
m. George F. Merrill, Jan. 3, 1856.
4) Abby Lewis, b. Sept. 12, 1839;
m. David Hall, Aug. 4, 1856
5) Helen Harvey, b. Oct. 15, 1841;
d. Aug. 30, 1842.

Source:
The Churchill Family in America
Compilers: Gardner Asaph Churchill,
Nathaniel Wiley Churchill
Published by the family of
Gardner Asaph Churchill

Note: Joseph is referred to as
"Captain" in the above mentioned
book.

Inscription


Erected
in memory of
JOSEPH CHURCHILL,
who Sailed from Boston
Nov. 1836
in the Brig Plymouth Rock
of Plymouth,
Bound to Rochelle in France
and supposed Foundered
at Sea, aged 54 years.
Also his Children
JOSEPH LEWIS, died at
sea on board the Brig
Androscoggin of Portland
Aug. 1842, aged. 37 yrs.
MARCIA GOODWIN,
died May 2, 1839,
aged 22 years.

Epitaphs from Burial Hill
by Bradford Kingman
Published 1892
Epitaph #1434



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