Daughter of Edith and William Harty.
Source: Professor Thomas William Baldwin, AB, SB, New England Historic Genealogy Society, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston 1914) II, 418
Second wife of widower, Francis Whitmore [Sr.]. They married 10 November 1666 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.
Margaret is recorded in Cambridge Town Records as being buried here in the Old Burying Ground after her death:
"1685 on 1-1", "Margaret, w. Francis Whitmore, d." (Note* The designation of 1-1 would be the 1st of March, as, by the OLD CALENDAR, March was their first month of the year.)
Francis died 10 October of that same year (1685) and was also buried, 12 October at this burying ground, along with first wife, Isabell Parke and second wife, Margaret Harty.
In 1845, his epitapth was recorded as being engraved on two stones still standing, since his death, in this Burying Ground:
Gravestone inscription:
HERE LYES YE BODY
OF FRANCIS WHIT
MORE, AGED 62
YEARS DECEASED
OCTOBER 12
1685
Footstone inscription:
FRANCIS
WHITMORE
By 1845, Isabell's and Margaret's stones were missing and sometime after 1845, Francis Whitmore's headstone and his footstone were both moved to Salem Street Burial Ground in Medford, Middlesex County.
The only reason his stones would have been moved to Salem Street, is because the Old Burying Ground had been turned into a sheep pasture. In 1702, town records indicate it was rented as pasture and by 1800, lay neglected.
"Either by the ravages of time or by some sacrilegious hand, these tablets have been removed, and thus no memorial is left of those whose ashes rest beneath." ~William Thaddeus Harris, 1845
Source: Professor Thomas William Baldwin, AB, SB, New England Historic Genealogy Society, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston 1914) II, 418
Second wife of widower, Francis Whitmore [Sr.]. They married 10 November 1666 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.
Margaret is recorded in Cambridge Town Records as being buried here in the Old Burying Ground after her death:
"1685 on 1-1", "Margaret, w. Francis Whitmore, d." (Note* The designation of 1-1 would be the 1st of March, as, by the OLD CALENDAR, March was their first month of the year.)
Francis died 10 October of that same year (1685) and was also buried, 12 October at this burying ground, along with first wife, Isabell Parke and second wife, Margaret Harty.
In 1845, his epitapth was recorded as being engraved on two stones still standing, since his death, in this Burying Ground:
Gravestone inscription:
HERE LYES YE BODY
OF FRANCIS WHIT
MORE, AGED 62
YEARS DECEASED
OCTOBER 12
1685
Footstone inscription:
FRANCIS
WHITMORE
By 1845, Isabell's and Margaret's stones were missing and sometime after 1845, Francis Whitmore's headstone and his footstone were both moved to Salem Street Burial Ground in Medford, Middlesex County.
The only reason his stones would have been moved to Salem Street, is because the Old Burying Ground had been turned into a sheep pasture. In 1702, town records indicate it was rented as pasture and by 1800, lay neglected.
"Either by the ravages of time or by some sacrilegious hand, these tablets have been removed, and thus no memorial is left of those whose ashes rest beneath." ~William Thaddeus Harris, 1845
Daughter of Edith and William Harty.
Source: Professor Thomas William Baldwin, AB, SB, New England Historic Genealogy Society, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston 1914) II, 418
Second wife of widower, Francis Whitmore [Sr.]. They married 10 November 1666 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.
Margaret is recorded in Cambridge Town Records as being buried here in the Old Burying Ground after her death:
"1685 on 1-1", "Margaret, w. Francis Whitmore, d." (Note* The designation of 1-1 would be the 1st of March, as, by the OLD CALENDAR, March was their first month of the year.)
Francis died 10 October of that same year (1685) and was also buried, 12 October at this burying ground, along with first wife, Isabell Parke and second wife, Margaret Harty.
In 1845, his epitapth was recorded as being engraved on two stones still standing, since his death, in this Burying Ground:
Gravestone inscription:
HERE LYES YE BODY
OF FRANCIS WHIT
MORE, AGED 62
YEARS DECEASED
OCTOBER 12
1685
Footstone inscription:
FRANCIS
WHITMORE
By 1845, Isabell's and Margaret's stones were missing and sometime after 1845, Francis Whitmore's headstone and his footstone were both moved to Salem Street Burial Ground in Medford, Middlesex County.
The only reason his stones would have been moved to Salem Street, is because the Old Burying Ground had been turned into a sheep pasture. In 1702, town records indicate it was rented as pasture and by 1800, lay neglected.
"Either by the ravages of time or by some sacrilegious hand, these tablets have been removed, and thus no memorial is left of those whose ashes rest beneath." ~William Thaddeus Harris, 1845
Source: Professor Thomas William Baldwin, AB, SB, New England Historic Genealogy Society, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston 1914) II, 418
Second wife of widower, Francis Whitmore [Sr.]. They married 10 November 1666 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.
Margaret is recorded in Cambridge Town Records as being buried here in the Old Burying Ground after her death:
"1685 on 1-1", "Margaret, w. Francis Whitmore, d." (Note* The designation of 1-1 would be the 1st of March, as, by the OLD CALENDAR, March was their first month of the year.)
Francis died 10 October of that same year (1685) and was also buried, 12 October at this burying ground, along with first wife, Isabell Parke and second wife, Margaret Harty.
In 1845, his epitapth was recorded as being engraved on two stones still standing, since his death, in this Burying Ground:
Gravestone inscription:
HERE LYES YE BODY
OF FRANCIS WHIT
MORE, AGED 62
YEARS DECEASED
OCTOBER 12
1685
Footstone inscription:
FRANCIS
WHITMORE
By 1845, Isabell's and Margaret's stones were missing and sometime after 1845, Francis Whitmore's headstone and his footstone were both moved to Salem Street Burial Ground in Medford, Middlesex County.
The only reason his stones would have been moved to Salem Street, is because the Old Burying Ground had been turned into a sheep pasture. In 1702, town records indicate it was rented as pasture and by 1800, lay neglected.
"Either by the ravages of time or by some sacrilegious hand, these tablets have been removed, and thus no memorial is left of those whose ashes rest beneath." ~William Thaddeus Harris, 1845
