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Sgt Phineas Sprague Veteran

Birth
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
29 Dec 1805 (aged 80)
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cenotaph
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Listed on the Revolutionary War Memorial at the left of the main gate.

Actual burial here
Listed on the Revolutionary War Memorial at the left of the main gate.

Actual burial here

Inscription

This Stone Erected
to the Memory of
Mr. Phinehas Sprague
who died Dec'r 29th AD 1805
In the 81st Year of his Age.

His alms, with liberal heart he gave,
Unto the sons of need;
His Memory will to ages live,
Though, he is gone indeed.

Gravesite Details

This is one of several graves north of Medford Street that were re-interred in 1899. It appears in the early surveys of the cemetery but not in the Malden Cemetery Department Bell Rock card file.


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