Dates are written in the old style, since the method of figuring calendar dates changed officially in 1752. Under the new style, Sarah died on Jan. 21, 1738, officially adopted in 1752 & used thereafter.∼Born c.1717, Sarah Meeker died in "ye 19th year of her Age" after giving birth to her 2nd child. The young wife of Timothy Meeker, she was the daughter of Joseph and Hephzibah Pairson.
Her brown sandstone stele, which features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, appears to be the work of a craftsman know as the "Common Jersey Carver". The epitaph's reference to the teenaged matron's "Bloming youth" suggests that she had been both healthy and happy until her untimely death:
"Here lyes a Bloming youth
She lived in love and died in truth"
Sadly, however, death at an early age was not unusual during the colonial era. Many women died in childbirth, and even minor injuries, if infected, could prove fatal. Sarah's survivors included her parents and her husband, a robust man who lived into his 90th year.
Her brown sandstone stele, which features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, appears to be the work of a craftsman know as the "Common Jersey Carver". The epitaph's reference to the teenaged matron's "Bloming youth" suggests that she had been both healthy and happy until her untimely death:
"Here lyes a Bloming youth
She lived in love and died in truth"
Sadly, however, death at an early age was not unusual during the colonial era. Many women died in childbirth, and even minor injuries, if infected, could prove fatal. Sarah's survivors included her parents and her husband, a robust man who lived into his 90th year.
Dates are written in the old style, since the method of figuring calendar dates changed officially in 1752. Under the new style, Sarah died on Jan. 21, 1738, officially adopted in 1752 & used thereafter.∼Born c.1717, Sarah Meeker died in "ye 19th year of her Age" after giving birth to her 2nd child. The young wife of Timothy Meeker, she was the daughter of Joseph and Hephzibah Pairson.
Her brown sandstone stele, which features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, appears to be the work of a craftsman know as the "Common Jersey Carver". The epitaph's reference to the teenaged matron's "Bloming youth" suggests that she had been both healthy and happy until her untimely death:
"Here lyes a Bloming youth
She lived in love and died in truth"
Sadly, however, death at an early age was not unusual during the colonial era. Many women died in childbirth, and even minor injuries, if infected, could prove fatal. Sarah's survivors included her parents and her husband, a robust man who lived into his 90th year.
Her brown sandstone stele, which features a soul effigy of the winged death's head type in its tympanum, appears to be the work of a craftsman know as the "Common Jersey Carver". The epitaph's reference to the teenaged matron's "Bloming youth" suggests that she had been both healthy and happy until her untimely death:
"Here lyes a Bloming youth
She lived in love and died in truth"
Sadly, however, death at an early age was not unusual during the colonial era. Many women died in childbirth, and even minor injuries, if infected, could prove fatal. Sarah's survivors included her parents and her husband, a robust man who lived into his 90th year.
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aged 19; w/o Timothy
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[Ref. "1718-1928 The First Church of Orange Its Ministers & Ministries" pub. by Session of the First Presbyterian Church Orange NJ].
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