Harvard College
Cambridge Law School
Oliver Peabody was a lawyer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and a professor in a college in the south before moving to Burlington, Vermont in August, 1845. Here, he became the minister of the Unitarian Church. Rev. Peabody had been in that position for three years when he died suddenly from typhoid fever. He was not married.
An extensive obituary, first published in the September, 1848 edition of the Christian Examiner, was published in The Burlington Daily Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) on September 26, 1848.
The Unitarian Society published a booklet containing a sermon written by Oliver Peabody, "The Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers", from December 21, 1845.
Cambridge Law School
Oliver Peabody was a lawyer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and a professor in a college in the south before moving to Burlington, Vermont in August, 1845. Here, he became the minister of the Unitarian Church. Rev. Peabody had been in that position for three years when he died suddenly from typhoid fever. He was not married.
An extensive obituary, first published in the September, 1848 edition of the Christian Examiner, was published in The Burlington Daily Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) on September 26, 1848.
The Unitarian Society published a booklet containing a sermon written by Oliver Peabody, "The Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers", from December 21, 1845.
Harvard College
Cambridge Law School
Oliver Peabody was a lawyer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and a professor in a college in the south before moving to Burlington, Vermont in August, 1845. Here, he became the minister of the Unitarian Church. Rev. Peabody had been in that position for three years when he died suddenly from typhoid fever. He was not married.
An extensive obituary, first published in the September, 1848 edition of the Christian Examiner, was published in The Burlington Daily Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) on September 26, 1848.
The Unitarian Society published a booklet containing a sermon written by Oliver Peabody, "The Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers", from December 21, 1845.
Cambridge Law School
Oliver Peabody was a lawyer in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and a professor in a college in the south before moving to Burlington, Vermont in August, 1845. Here, he became the minister of the Unitarian Church. Rev. Peabody had been in that position for three years when he died suddenly from typhoid fever. He was not married.
An extensive obituary, first published in the September, 1848 edition of the Christian Examiner, was published in The Burlington Daily Free Press (Burlington, Vermont) on September 26, 1848.
The Unitarian Society published a booklet containing a sermon written by Oliver Peabody, "The Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers", from December 21, 1845.
Inscription
Our beloved Pastor
Oliver W. B. Peabody
Born
9th July 1799
Ordained
Over the First Cong. Society
4th August 1845
Taken from his people
July 5th 1848
Aged 49 years.
Gravesite Details
The inscription is from The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Volume 1. The memorial marker on this lot has not been readable since 2008 (and possibly earlier).
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