Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . arge and the tributes were numerous and beautiful. The fu-neral sermon was an impressive and fitting tribute to the memory of a worthymanand good citizen. The following acted as bearers : Hon. M. C. ^ of San ;.uker, AV. \V. ., R. G. Sneath. Michael Castle, U. L. Hinckley,P. F. , R. G. Bugbce. Other notices testify to the character and position of Caj-)-tain Stevens in his adopted home. A brief reference to hisearly life is only necessary to so complete a manhood. Histraining and edticatiun wa
Truro--Cape Cod, or, Land marks and sea marks . arge and the tributes were numerous and beautiful. The fu-neral sermon was an impressive and fitting tribute to the memory of a worthymanand good citizen. The following acted as bearers : Hon. M. C. ^ of San ;.uker, AV. \V. ., R. G. Sneath. Michael Castle, U. L. Hinckley,P. F. , R. G. Bugbce. Other notices testify to the character and position of Caj-)-tain Stevens in his adopted home. A brief reference to hisearly life is only necessary to so complete a manhood. Histraining and edticatiun was no diiferent from other boys ofhis time. He was born in 1812. I presimie he went a, fish-ing or tended salt-works when ten years of age and acquiredhis education from the district school three months a year tillperhaps eighteen. When aboui twerty-one he began hiscareer in the merchant sci\icc at tlic i .)nt ot the la^Itler. butsoon found his way up. He ^n about 1836, OliveWhite, a noble and -eocuus wi. Madelus home \\\ Trur.). r. .J v^ w CAP- 1I\I il[\LNS SEA/.iRJyCr AXn LA.\D]-AKJXG. 405 till about thf timo of beginriintj business in San marble shaft and two symmetrical nuilbcrry-trees mark thedust of ibeir only son and two daughters, who died within a fewweeks or months of each other. Th:^y were the first interred inthe yard known as Stevens Cemetery, where he built tlie firsttomb in Truro. The loss of all their children at that timefell with crashing effect and left its mark upon their lives. Burke war many years the popular mas-ter of the Hoston and Fayal packet Azor, known, while sailingunder the British flag, as Frcdoni,:. On New Years Day,1866, on his passage to Boston, in latitude 41, longitude 53,discovered the ship Gratiiiuic, with two hundred and seventy-five passengers from Liverpool to New York, in a sinking con-dition. After learning her condition, Captain Ikirkc threwoverboard his betwcitn-decks cargo, and transferre
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