Mrs. Ogden, nee Rebekah Wood, was born in November 1648. The wife of Jonathan Ogden and mother of their children, she died at age 74. Her brown sandstone stele is painstakingly cut but devoid of ornamentation, as are many of the earliest colonial era stones in New Jersey. Its lack of even a "winged skull" soul effigy, an image which had become popular by the early 1700's, could reflect a number of possibilities: religious-based discomfort with "graven images", the absence of a skilled carver, or the need to economize, to name but a few. Unlike the majority of colonial era gravestones, Mrs. Ogden's gives the month and year of her birth. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow.
Mrs. Ogden, nee Rebekah Wood, was born in November 1648. The wife of Jonathan Ogden and mother of their children, she died at age 74. Her brown sandstone stele is painstakingly cut but devoid of ornamentation, as are many of the earliest colonial era stones in New Jersey. Its lack of even a "winged skull" soul effigy, an image which had become popular by the early 1700's, could reflect a number of possibilities: religious-based discomfort with "graven images", the absence of a skilled carver, or the need to economize, to name but a few. Unlike the majority of colonial era gravestones, Mrs. Ogden's gives the month and year of her birth. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow.
Inscription
"Here
Lieth ye Body
of Rebekah Og
den of Elifabethtown
born in November
in the year 1648 who
Departed this Life
ye 1th Day of September
Anno Domini 1722"
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Source of maiden name other Findagrave member
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