Daughter of Samuel and Lucy Hitchcock. Elmwood Cemetery records list her as Lorrain A Hitchcock Peters.
Date of birth here - June 5 - is as noted in Burlington town clerk records.
It was suggested that Lorrain passed away on April 21. The gravestone is inscribed "22 April". The death announcements published in several Vermont papers also state she died April 22.
Death announcements:
Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815
Burlington Gazette (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815 : "She was a young lady of the most brilliant talents, elegant in her manners and amiable in her disposition. In her, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and her connexions one of the lovliest of friends."
Date of birth here - June 5 - is as noted in Burlington town clerk records.
It was suggested that Lorrain passed away on April 21. The gravestone is inscribed "22 April". The death announcements published in several Vermont papers also state she died April 22.
Death announcements:
Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815
Burlington Gazette (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815 : "She was a young lady of the most brilliant talents, elegant in her manners and amiable in her disposition. In her, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and her connexions one of the lovliest of friends."
Daughter of Samuel and Lucy Hitchcock. Elmwood Cemetery records list her as Lorrain A Hitchcock Peters.
Date of birth here - June 5 - is as noted in Burlington town clerk records.
It was suggested that Lorrain passed away on April 21. The gravestone is inscribed "22 April". The death announcements published in several Vermont papers also state she died April 22.
Death announcements:
Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815
Burlington Gazette (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815 : "She was a young lady of the most brilliant talents, elegant in her manners and amiable in her disposition. In her, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and her connexions one of the lovliest of friends."
Date of birth here - June 5 - is as noted in Burlington town clerk records.
It was suggested that Lorrain passed away on April 21. The gravestone is inscribed "22 April". The death announcements published in several Vermont papers also state she died April 22.
Death announcements:
Sentinel and Democrat (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815
Burlington Gazette (Burlington, Vermont) May 05, 1815 : "She was a young lady of the most brilliant talents, elegant in her manners and amiable in her disposition. In her, society has lost one of its brightest ornaments, and her connexions one of the lovliest of friends."
Inscription
Mjr George P Peters
of the U.S. Army
died
at Fort Gadson, Florida
Nov 28th 1819
aged thirty years
and
Lorrain
his wife
and eldest daughter of
of Samuel & Lucy ?
Hitchcock
died 22 April 1815
Aged 26 Years
and who lies beneath this stone
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