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Thread #10108   Message #968336
Posted By: Bat Goddess
18-Jun-03 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Rattlesnake Mountain/Springfield Mountain
Subject: RE: Rattlesnake Mountain / Springfield Mountain
Timothy Myrick is buried in the Deacon Adams cemetery in Wilbraham, MA -- Jeri and I found it a few years ago, thanks to the description in Anne Warner's book on the Warner collection and to Michael Cooney, who remembered the approximate location. Unfortunately, a prominant sign forbids both rubbings and PHOTOGRAPHS without permission. (And couldn't find the town hall on such short notice and limited time.)

Here's the epitaph:

Here lies ye Body of Mr. Timothy Mirick,
Son of Lieut. Thomas & Mrs. Mirick
who died August 7th 1761 in ye 23rd Year of his Age.

"He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down
He fleeeth also as a Shadow and continueth not." (Job XIV,2)

His father, by the way, spelled his name Merrick, at least on his marker.

Linn (still the thanatolithologist)