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Rebecca C Lowell

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Rebecca C Lowell

Birth
Stoughton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
4 Aug 1851 (aged 3)
Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.6732207, Longitude: -71.4770816
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Death record shows both her and her sister. Both died of Whopping Cough, less than a week apart.
Rebecca died 5 Aug 1851 at age 3 years, 5 months and 5 days making her calculated birth date 29 Feb 1848.

The inscriptions for her in Rev. Nason's book, History of Dunstable, show:
SARAH E.,d.July 30,1851,aged 6 yrs.and 3 mos.;REBECCA C,d. Aug. 4, 1867,aged 3 yrs.and 4 mos., children of S. B.and Sarah L. Lowell.
1867 is wrong, the headstone was misread. The headstone has Aug 4, 1851.
Death record shows both her and her sister. Both died of Whopping Cough, less than a week apart.
Rebecca died 5 Aug 1851 at age 3 years, 5 months and 5 days making her calculated birth date 29 Feb 1848.

The inscriptions for her in Rev. Nason's book, History of Dunstable, show:
SARAH E.,d.July 30,1851,aged 6 yrs.and 3 mos.;REBECCA C,d. Aug. 4, 1867,aged 3 yrs.and 4 mos., children of S. B.and Sarah L. Lowell.
1867 is wrong, the headstone was misread. The headstone has Aug 4, 1851.

Inscription

SARAH E.
d. July 30, 1851
aged 6 yrs. and 3 mos.

REBECCA C.
d. Aug. 4, 1851
aged 3 yrs. and 4 mos.

Children of S. B. and Sarah L. Lowell

Source: Nason, Elias "History of Dunstable, Massachusetts": A Mudge & Son, printers, Boston 1877



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