This is likely the mother of the child below and who now also comes to be buried here. Joseph Ropes of Hartford, Connecticut, was a landscape artist. Notes and Queries places this tomb between Frances Trollope and Julia Stout
Marcia Ropes, l'Amerique, agée de 39 ans/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais', Francs 331.75/ Ropes/ E./ / America/ Firenze/ 17 Luglio/ 1864/ Anni 39/ 872/ +. N&Q 163. Marcia Eliz. Sewall, w. of Joseph Ropes, b. in Bath, Maine, U.S.A., 1 July 1825, ob. in Viareggio 17 July 1864/∼~ MARCIA ELIZABETH S. SEWALL ~ age 38
Father: William Dunning Sewall, Shipbuilding, (B: 16 Jan 1797 - 1877) S/o Joseph Sewall & Lydia Marsh
Mother: Rachel Allen Trufant (B: 25 Oct 1797, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME) D/o William Trufant
Siblings:
1. Harriet Hyde Sewall (Cutler)(B: 28 May 1823, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME);
2. Marcia Elizabeth S. Sewall;
3. William Dunning Sewall, Jr., (B: 02 May 1827 - 09 Sep 1851, age 24, Bath, ME) married (09 Apr 1851, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME): Lydia Mary Fitts
Note: "On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. William D. Sewall, Jr., of the firm Clark, Sewall & Co., of this city, while walking on the box stage of a new ship suddenly lost his balance and fell a distance of about 18 feet. On reaching the ground he received so severe a contusion in his head as to terminate fatally in a few hours". Bath Tribune);
4. Edward (Oscar) Sewall, Shipbuilder, (B: 28 Sep 1833, ME - 21 Mar 1879, age 45, New York City) married: Sarah Elizabeth Swanton (B: 1833 - Died: 13 May 1916, 83yrs 4mths 3dys) (Note: Edward apparently suffered an attack of vertigo at the Windsor Hotel and fell over a balustrade, shattering a chandelier in his fall of some 20 feet to the floor below);
5. Arthur Sewall;
6. Rev. Dr. Frank Sewall (B: 24 Sep 1837, Bath, ME - 07 Dec 1915, age 78, 1618 Riggs Place, Washington, DC, at 7.30 in the morning after an illness of six months; Funeral: 09 Dec 1915, Church of the New Jerusalem, Washington, DC)
8. Alice Worcester Sewall (B: May 1842 - 08 Jan 1933)
Died: 17 Jul 1863, Italy
This is likely the mother of the child below and who now also comes to be buried here. Joseph Ropes of Hartford, Connecticut, was a landscape artist. Notes and Queries places this tomb between Frances Trollope and Julia Stout
Marcia Ropes, l'Amerique, agée de 39 ans/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais', Francs 331.75/ Ropes/ E./ / America/ Firenze/ 17 Luglio/ 1864/ Anni 39/ 872/ +. N&Q 163. Marcia Eliz. Sewall, w. of Joseph Ropes, b. in Bath, Maine, U.S.A., 1 July 1825, ob. in Viareggio 17 July 1864/∼~ MARCIA ELIZABETH S. SEWALL ~ age 38
Father: William Dunning Sewall, Shipbuilding, (B: 16 Jan 1797 - 1877) S/o Joseph Sewall & Lydia Marsh
Mother: Rachel Allen Trufant (B: 25 Oct 1797, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME) D/o William Trufant
Siblings:
1. Harriet Hyde Sewall (Cutler)(B: 28 May 1823, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME);
2. Marcia Elizabeth S. Sewall;
3. William Dunning Sewall, Jr., (B: 02 May 1827 - 09 Sep 1851, age 24, Bath, ME) married (09 Apr 1851, Bath, Sagadahoc, ME): Lydia Mary Fitts
Note: "On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. William D. Sewall, Jr., of the firm Clark, Sewall & Co., of this city, while walking on the box stage of a new ship suddenly lost his balance and fell a distance of about 18 feet. On reaching the ground he received so severe a contusion in his head as to terminate fatally in a few hours". Bath Tribune);
4. Edward (Oscar) Sewall, Shipbuilder, (B: 28 Sep 1833, ME - 21 Mar 1879, age 45, New York City) married: Sarah Elizabeth Swanton (B: 1833 - Died: 13 May 1916, 83yrs 4mths 3dys) (Note: Edward apparently suffered an attack of vertigo at the Windsor Hotel and fell over a balustrade, shattering a chandelier in his fall of some 20 feet to the floor below);
5. Arthur Sewall;
6. Rev. Dr. Frank Sewall (B: 24 Sep 1837, Bath, ME - 07 Dec 1915, age 78, 1618 Riggs Place, Washington, DC, at 7.30 in the morning after an illness of six months; Funeral: 09 Dec 1915, Church of the New Jerusalem, Washington, DC)
8. Alice Worcester Sewall (B: May 1842 - 08 Jan 1933)
Died: 17 Jul 1863, Italy
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