Priscilla, as she was known, was a first cousin of the writer Herman Melville. She was the first to be buried in lot 18, Mount Hope, acquired in 1851 by Mary Ann Melvill in 1851.
Herman's mother Elizabeth wrote of Priscilla's grave in 1892, describing it as weedy and neglected. "I once planted a willow over Priscilla's mound, but it died out." A year later she wrote, "I saw Mr. McArthur and expressed my approval at the appearance of the cemetery lot--he did not make the mound over Priscilla's grave because it was so obliterated that he did not know exactly where it was."
Elizabeth planned for a stone with all the initials on it, A.M.P.M., but it probably never came to be.
Details taken from Philip Young's book, The Private Melville.
Herman's mother Elizabeth wrote of Priscilla's grave in 1892, describing it as weedy and neglected. "I once planted a willow over Priscilla's mound, but it died out." A year later she wrote, "I saw Mr. McArthur and expressed my approval at the appearance of the cemetery lot--he did not make the mound over Priscilla's grave because it was so obliterated that he did not know exactly where it was."
Elizabeth planned for a stone with all the initials on it, A.M.P.M., but it probably never came to be.
Details taken from Philip Young's book, The Private Melville.
Priscilla, as she was known, was a first cousin of the writer Herman Melville. She was the first to be buried in lot 18, Mount Hope, acquired in 1851 by Mary Ann Melvill in 1851.
Herman's mother Elizabeth wrote of Priscilla's grave in 1892, describing it as weedy and neglected. "I once planted a willow over Priscilla's mound, but it died out." A year later she wrote, "I saw Mr. McArthur and expressed my approval at the appearance of the cemetery lot--he did not make the mound over Priscilla's grave because it was so obliterated that he did not know exactly where it was."
Elizabeth planned for a stone with all the initials on it, A.M.P.M., but it probably never came to be.
Details taken from Philip Young's book, The Private Melville.
Herman's mother Elizabeth wrote of Priscilla's grave in 1892, describing it as weedy and neglected. "I once planted a willow over Priscilla's mound, but it died out." A year later she wrote, "I saw Mr. McArthur and expressed my approval at the appearance of the cemetery lot--he did not make the mound over Priscilla's grave because it was so obliterated that he did not know exactly where it was."
Elizabeth planned for a stone with all the initials on it, A.M.P.M., but it probably never came to be.
Details taken from Philip Young's book, The Private Melville.
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Lot 18, Mount Hope
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