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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
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historian; spouse to @fionawhim; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): tinyurl.com/yksh3ksa antiquarian books: www.instagram.com/snapdragons.lair.books/
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It's common to see 18th-century gravestones identify women as "wife of [some guy]," but less common for men to be identified as husbands. One carver who regularly called men husbands was Obadiah Wheeler of Windham Co. CT. ex: "Mr William Moore who had been ye Husband of three Wifes" (1728)

gray gravestone with rosettes, winged soul effigy, and lichen on surface

epitaph:

Here lies ye Body of 
Mr William Moore who 
had been ye Husband 
of three Wifes Mrs Mary 
Moore & Mrs Mary Moore 
& Mrs Tamazon Moore 
Who died April 28 
1728 & 77 year of his age 
I pray God Bless my louing Wif 
My Children & my friends
I hope in Heauen to see you all
when all things have their ends
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More Obadiah Wheeler "husband" stones: "Thomas Huntington Esqr & Husbband to Mrs Elizebeth Huntington" (Windham Center, CT) "Decn Shubael Dimmuck Husband to that Worthy Godly Woman Mrs joannah Dimmuck" (Masnfield Center, CT)

a similar gray gravestone with winged soul effigy and epitaph for "Thomas Huntington Esqr & Husbband to Mrs Elizebeth Huntington"
a more elaborate stone with more whorls, but basically the same pattern, with epitaph for "Decn Shubael Dimmuck Husband to that Worthy Godly Woman Mrs joannah Dimmuck"
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Sorry, I'm going to need to know more about Tamazon??

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
historian; spouse to @fionawhim; she/they 🏳️‍🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): tinyurl.com/yksh3ksa antiquarian books: www.instagram.com/snapdragons.lair.books/
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