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Rebekah Lynde Sprague

Birth
Death
30 Apr 1788 (aged 93–94)
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Cenotaph
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Actual burial hereRebeckah was the 94 year old widow of Phinehas Skinner, who passed away on June 13, 1775, at the age of 76 years old.

Source:
Synopsis of the Inscriptions in
the Old Malden Burying Grounds
Actual burial hereRebeckah was the 94 year old widow of Phinehas Skinner, who passed away on June 13, 1775, at the age of 76 years old.

Source:
Synopsis of the Inscriptions in
the Old Malden Burying Grounds

Inscription

In Memory of
Mrs Rebekah Sprague
Widow of the late
Mr Phinehas Sprague
who died April 30th 1788
In the 94th Year
of her age.

Father I give my spirit up,
And trust it in thy hand
My dying flesh shall rest in hope
And rise at thy Command.

Gravesite Details

This is one of several graves north of Medford Street that were re-interred in 1899. It appears in the early surveys of the cemetery but not in the Malden Cemetery Department Bell Rock card file.



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