Mrs. Cook, the former Margret Griswould Cocker, was the first wife of American patriot and Revolutionary War officer Col. Ellis Cook. She died at age " 41 years, 3 months" during the second year of the war.
Her brown sandstone stele features a portrait-type soul effigy in its tympanum embellished with scarf-like wings. Stars, undulating lines, and a pair of hour glasses complete the design, giving it an almost exhuberant appearance. Her epitaph (see full inscription below) is also a departure from the somber sentiments typically seen on early American stones:
"...A tender Mother and a Loveing wife
Kind to Relations & a Faithfull Friend
Hapy in her begineng & double so in her end"
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 2002)
Her brown sandstone stele features a portrait-type soul effigy in its tympanum embellished with scarf-like wings. Stars, undulating lines, and a pair of hour glasses complete the design, giving it an almost exhuberant appearance. Her epitaph (see full inscription below) is also a departure from the somber sentiments typically seen on early American stones:
"...A tender Mother and a Loveing wife
Kind to Relations & a Faithfull Friend
Hapy in her begineng & double so in her end"
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 2002)
Mrs. Cook, the former Margret Griswould Cocker, was the first wife of American patriot and Revolutionary War officer Col. Ellis Cook. She died at age " 41 years, 3 months" during the second year of the war.
Her brown sandstone stele features a portrait-type soul effigy in its tympanum embellished with scarf-like wings. Stars, undulating lines, and a pair of hour glasses complete the design, giving it an almost exhuberant appearance. Her epitaph (see full inscription below) is also a departure from the somber sentiments typically seen on early American stones:
"...A tender Mother and a Loveing wife
Kind to Relations & a Faithfull Friend
Hapy in her begineng & double so in her end"
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 2002)
Her brown sandstone stele features a portrait-type soul effigy in its tympanum embellished with scarf-like wings. Stars, undulating lines, and a pair of hour glasses complete the design, giving it an almost exhuberant appearance. Her epitaph (see full inscription below) is also a departure from the somber sentiments typically seen on early American stones:
"...A tender Mother and a Loveing wife
Kind to Relations & a Faithfull Friend
Hapy in her begineng & double so in her end"
("ANONYMOUS" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, 2002)
Inscription
"Here lies Interr'd the Body
of Margret Griswould
wife of Coll. Ellis Cook.
She Departed this Life
March 15, 1777 Aged 41
Years and 3 Months.
Here lies one bereav'd of Life
A tender Mother and a Loveing wife
Kind to Relations & a Faithfull Friend
Hapy in her begineng & double so in her end"
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