The Death Date on Mary Sayles is 1681. An examination of the first gravestone photo clearly reveals that the two times the number "1" is used in the 1681 date, they are identical in form. An even more vivid photo of her headstone confirming the last digit as a "1" can be seen at the Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website. Here is the written transcription of the information on the gravestone found on the RIHCC website:
Name: Mary [Williams] Sayles
Birth Date: 8 Mar 1636
Death Date: 1681
Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
Cemetery: NICHOLAS EASTON LOT
Cemetery Number: MT014
Map: 00002
Condition: poor
Stone Material: slate
Shape: fancy top
Legibility: poor
Number of Graves on Stone: 1
Grave Last Seen Date: 2007*
*Sayles, Mary [Williams], Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries (Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website: https://rihistoriccemeteries.org/).
Name: Mary [Williams] Sayles
Birth Date: 8 Mar 1636
Death Date: 1681
Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
Cemetery: NICHOLAS EASTON LOT
Cemetery Number: MT014
Map: 00002
Condition: poor
Stone Material: slate
Shape: fancy top
Legibility: poor
Number of Graves on Stone: 1
Grave Last Seen Date: 2007*
*Sayles, Mary [Williams], Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries (Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website: https://rihistoriccemeteries.org/).
The Death Date on Mary Sayles is 1681. An examination of the first gravestone photo clearly reveals that the two times the number "1" is used in the 1681 date, they are identical in form. An even more vivid photo of her headstone confirming the last digit as a "1" can be seen at the Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website. Here is the written transcription of the information on the gravestone found on the RIHCC website:
Name: Mary [Williams] Sayles
Birth Date: 8 Mar 1636
Death Date: 1681
Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
Cemetery: NICHOLAS EASTON LOT
Cemetery Number: MT014
Map: 00002
Condition: poor
Stone Material: slate
Shape: fancy top
Legibility: poor
Number of Graves on Stone: 1
Grave Last Seen Date: 2007*
*Sayles, Mary [Williams], Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries (Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website: https://rihistoriccemeteries.org/).
Name: Mary [Williams] Sayles
Birth Date: 8 Mar 1636
Death Date: 1681
Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
Cemetery: NICHOLAS EASTON LOT
Cemetery Number: MT014
Map: 00002
Condition: poor
Stone Material: slate
Shape: fancy top
Legibility: poor
Number of Graves on Stone: 1
Grave Last Seen Date: 2007*
*Sayles, Mary [Williams], Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries (Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Commission website: https://rihistoriccemeteries.org/).
Gravesite Details
Notes: "HEAR LYETH Ye BODY OF MARY SAYLES WIFE OF JOHN SAYLES WHO DIED IN Ye YEAR 1681 AGED 45 YEARS" There is a picture of the original stone taken before 1940 in a bound manuscript at the RI Historical Society entitled Baker-Cranston by R. W. Bake
Family Members
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