. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . :mi^ii!(iW»::aamimKm^. GRAVESTONE OF ELDER HENRY Reset 1906. NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY. 21 years, was a deacon and presiding elder of the church, oc-cupying, it is said, a seat in the pulpit with the married and had eleven children. He died and wasburied in the Neck of Land Burying Ground where still is tobe seen his gravestone inscribed: here lies the body of ELDER HENRY HoDGES AGED 65 DIED IN THE YEAR 1717 SEPTEMBER THE 30. An excavatiou, made one hundred andeighty-nine years after his burial, disclosed one end of his o
. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . :mi^ii!(iW»::aamimKm^. GRAVESTONE OF ELDER HENRY Reset 1906. NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY. 21 years, was a deacon and presiding elder of the church, oc-cupying, it is said, a seat in the pulpit with the married and had eleven children. He died and wasburied in the Neck of Land Burying Ground where still is tobe seen his gravestone inscribed: here lies the body of ELDER HENRY HoDGES AGED 65 DIED IN THE YEAR 1717 SEPTEMBER THE 30. An excavatiou, made one hundred andeighty-nine years after his burial, disclosed one end of his oakcoffin, blackened with age but unchanged in form. His auto-graph, twice reproduced above, is to be found on many olddocuments, owing to his prominence.
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