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Pitcairn Wordless Wednesday
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Snow Wordless Wednesday
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George Jacobs, Sr.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, danvers, massachusetts, salem, salem witch trials on January 9, 2020| Leave a Comment »
In the family cemetery on the Rebecca Nurse Homestead, there is a newer stone in the colonial style for George Jacobs, Sr. In documents regarding the Salem Witch Trials, he is described as an elderly (late 70s/early 80s) English colonist and farmer who used canes for mobility. During the 1692 Salem Witch trials, the afflicted girls, including his servant Sarah Churchill, accused Jacobs, his son George Jr., his daughter-in-law Rebecca, and granddaughter Margaret of being witches. George Jr. managed to evade arrest by leaving the Salem area. Margaret Jacobs confessed to witchcraft while being examined by the magistrates, naming her grandfather as another witch. Though Margaret later recanted her testimony and was in fact acquitted, her grandfather was tried, convicted, and sentences to die by hanging.
The executed witches were barred from burial in sacred ground and probably tossed in a common pit near the gallows, but Salem tradition has long held that some relatives returned under the cover of night to retrieve remains and bury them in secret. The Jacobs descendants claimed to have found George Sr.’s grave on the family farm in 1864. In 1950, developers discovered the grave while building on the property, and the bones were exhumed. While they cannot be verified as belonging to George Jacobs, Sr., the bones were those of an elderly man fitting his description. In 1992, 300 years after the trials, the bones were reinterred in the Nurse family cemetery on the Rebecca Nurse homestead in a 17th century style coffin.
Irvine Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, derry, great britain, ireland, londonderry, northern ireland, occupation, st. columb's cathedral, wordless wednesday on December 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Galway Bay Tragedy
Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged cause of death, cenotaph, galway, galway bay, ireland on November 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I tried to find more information about the tragic drowning of 8 men on Galway Bay on 1902. I found a lot of websites that included no more information than what is carved on this memorial. The only additional detail I located was that the men were sailing back from a wedding.
Wordless Wednesday: Killed in service to his country
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Uncategorized, tagged cause of death, civil war on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Thompson, Kinkead, and Roberts Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, galway, grave art, ireland, republic of ireland, sculpture, st. nicholas' collegiate church, wordless wednesday on February 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »
To the memory of John Skelton Thompson
Francis John Langley Kinkead
Thomas Leopold Roberts
who all three perished on one day by drowning in Loch Corrie 17 August 1887
moved with pity for so sad a catastrophe, the citizens of Galway had this monument erected.
They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in death they were not divided.
Boyd Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, dublin, epitaphs, ireland, occupation, poetry, st. patrick's cathedral on June 12, 2013| 1 Comment »
Graham Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, donegal, donegal abbey, epitaphs, ireland, wordless wednesday on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Banks Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, donegal, donegal abbey, ireland, occupation, tombstone tales, wordless wednesday on May 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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