Daughter of Nathan Munroe of Lexington and Mercy Benjamin of Watertown. Married Oliver Wheeler of Acton 3 Mar 1773 in Acton. Twelve children. Settled Hillsborough circa 1776, with a number of her Munroe relatives.
By the time she died in 1829, aged 78, it was no longer stylish to bear quite so aggressively Old Testamentish a name as hers. Her stone, accordingly, calls her "Hepizeth." Even half a century earlier in 1776, as a young bride in her native Carlisle (then Billerica), she signed her name "Hepzibeth" — see the illustration.
The original name, by the way, means "In her is my delight" — cf. Isaiah 62. Note also that by the 1820's, the winged death's head of Puritan tombstones had softened, in keeping with social and doctrinal evolution in the Congregational and Unitarian worlds, to urns and willows.
By the time she died in 1829, aged 78, it was no longer stylish to bear quite so aggressively Old Testamentish a name as hers. Her stone, accordingly, calls her "Hepizeth." Even half a century earlier in 1776, as a young bride in her native Carlisle (then Billerica), she signed her name "Hepzibeth" — see the illustration.
The original name, by the way, means "In her is my delight" — cf. Isaiah 62. Note also that by the 1820's, the winged death's head of Puritan tombstones had softened, in keeping with social and doctrinal evolution in the Congregational and Unitarian worlds, to urns and willows.
Daughter of Nathan Munroe of Lexington and Mercy Benjamin of Watertown. Married Oliver Wheeler of Acton 3 Mar 1773 in Acton. Twelve children. Settled Hillsborough circa 1776, with a number of her Munroe relatives.
By the time she died in 1829, aged 78, it was no longer stylish to bear quite so aggressively Old Testamentish a name as hers. Her stone, accordingly, calls her "Hepizeth." Even half a century earlier in 1776, as a young bride in her native Carlisle (then Billerica), she signed her name "Hepzibeth" — see the illustration.
The original name, by the way, means "In her is my delight" — cf. Isaiah 62. Note also that by the 1820's, the winged death's head of Puritan tombstones had softened, in keeping with social and doctrinal evolution in the Congregational and Unitarian worlds, to urns and willows.
By the time she died in 1829, aged 78, it was no longer stylish to bear quite so aggressively Old Testamentish a name as hers. Her stone, accordingly, calls her "Hepizeth." Even half a century earlier in 1776, as a young bride in her native Carlisle (then Billerica), she signed her name "Hepzibeth" — see the illustration.
The original name, by the way, means "In her is my delight" — cf. Isaiah 62. Note also that by the 1820's, the winged death's head of Puritan tombstones had softened, in keeping with social and doctrinal evolution in the Congregational and Unitarian worlds, to urns and willows.
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