Tombstone Tuesday - Elijah Taylor

Elijah Taylor

Elijah Taylor is the son of Elija. (see previous post).  He is buried by his father in the Berwick Cemetery. He passed away a year before his father died.

Tombstone Tuesday - Elija & Abigail Taylor

Elija & Abigail Taylor

Robert’s 3rd great grand uncle.  He’s buried with his first wife, Abigail.  Abigail past away 40 years before her husband. They are buried in the Berwick Cemetery.

Tombstone Tuesday - Linda Taylor

Linda Taylor

This is a very interesting gravestone.  Carved on the stone:

LINDA TAYLOR

WIFE OF

Wm. S. Sanford

(DEAF MUTE.)

died July 8: 1845

aged 45 years

A native of Ludlow

Vermont, U.S. A.

This stone gives a lot of information.  It has Linda’s maiden name of Taylor, her husband’s name, that she was a deaf mute, when she died, how old she was when she died, and where she original is from.

Although I can’t find any ties to Robert, her husband (William Stanhope Sanford) is a distant 2nd cousin 5x removed.  I think Linda would have been an intriguing woman. How did she cope in the early 1800s as a deaf mute?

Tombstone Tuesday - Paoli Randall & Adelaide Foster

Rev. P R  & Adelaide Foster

Rev. Paoli Randall Foster, Robert’s 2nd great grand uncle, is the son of Isaac Foster and Rebecca Taylor.  He married Adelaide Crocker on July 13, 1871 in Brookfield, Queens, Nova Scotia. They are buried in the Berwick Cemetery in Nova Scotia.