Born Abigail Mulford c.1740, Mrs. Wade was the widow of an American Revolutionary War officer, Nehemiah Wade, Esq., who had died seven years earlier during the first year of the fighting. She was in her 43rd year at the time her demise.
The couple, whose deaths are spanned by the war years, are buried in a single plot along with a two-year-old son, Benjamin, who had predeceased them both in 1765. Their gravesite is marked by a brown sandstone stele which is notable for its dove-with-olive-branch motif, an unusual and gentle design in an era dominated by grim death's heads and soul effigies. Inscribed "Come unto me", it is the work of Elizabethtown master carver Ebenezer Price. ("Anonymous" PHOTO of GRAVESTONE TYMPANUM by Nikita Barlow.)
The couple, whose deaths are spanned by the war years, are buried in a single plot along with a two-year-old son, Benjamin, who had predeceased them both in 1765. Their gravesite is marked by a brown sandstone stele which is notable for its dove-with-olive-branch motif, an unusual and gentle design in an era dominated by grim death's heads and soul effigies. Inscribed "Come unto me", it is the work of Elizabethtown master carver Ebenezer Price. ("Anonymous" PHOTO of GRAVESTONE TYMPANUM by Nikita Barlow.)
Born Abigail Mulford c.1740, Mrs. Wade was the widow of an American Revolutionary War officer, Nehemiah Wade, Esq., who had died seven years earlier during the first year of the fighting. She was in her 43rd year at the time her demise.
The couple, whose deaths are spanned by the war years, are buried in a single plot along with a two-year-old son, Benjamin, who had predeceased them both in 1765. Their gravesite is marked by a brown sandstone stele which is notable for its dove-with-olive-branch motif, an unusual and gentle design in an era dominated by grim death's heads and soul effigies. Inscribed "Come unto me", it is the work of Elizabethtown master carver Ebenezer Price. ("Anonymous" PHOTO of GRAVESTONE TYMPANUM by Nikita Barlow.)
The couple, whose deaths are spanned by the war years, are buried in a single plot along with a two-year-old son, Benjamin, who had predeceased them both in 1765. Their gravesite is marked by a brown sandstone stele which is notable for its dove-with-olive-branch motif, an unusual and gentle design in an era dominated by grim death's heads and soul effigies. Inscribed "Come unto me", it is the work of Elizabethtown master carver Ebenezer Price. ("Anonymous" PHOTO of GRAVESTONE TYMPANUM by Nikita Barlow.)
Inscription
"Come unto me" (In tympanum)
"In memory of
Nehemiah Wade, Esq, who
died Octr ye 19th AD 1776
in the 40th Year of his
Age
And
Abigail his Wife who
died March ye 1st AD 1783
In the 43rd Year of her
Age"
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