Birth 22 June 1683 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Birth 22 June 1683 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Inscription
Here lie the remains of 111 persons who were buried in the early cemetery on Worcester Common, and removed to this place during the construction of the Worcester Center in 1968. Forty seven listed below are interred with their gravestones laid flat above them the remainder without gravestones are unidentified.
From "Epitaphs from the Cemetery on Worcester Common; with occasional notes, references, and an index" by W.S. Barton, published Worcester, MA, 1848.
Jonathan Gates
died Feb. 7 1756
[1755 Town Record]
age 73
[His epitaph is brief; "Reader - Remember Death."
Gravesite Details
Moved from Worcester Common in 1969. Original gravestones were laid flat and covered
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