The Grave of Joseph Bucklin, 4th
The gravestone read
s: "Sacred to the memory of
Capt. Joseph Bucklin who departed this life December 27,
1790. Aged 70 years 10 months 1
day. Having through life sustained the character of an industrious and
honest man."
Other Material on the Gravestone includes:
Name of wife: Zerviah Sabin, Death of Joseph as 27th of December 1790 and
that he died at the age of 70 years 10 months and 4 days.
(Click on thumbnails to enlarge.)
Photo on right has gravestones of two
children , James and
Sally, whose headstones are on the viewer's left. The , gravestone of wife Zerviah, and
gravestone of Joseph are on the viewer's right in this photo.
Headstone composition is slate in "good"
condition in June 2000, with good legibility. The stone carvers was
Gabriel Allen (identification of carver made by John Sterling) This same
carver also did the gravestone of Zeriah.
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directions to find the grave in the North Burial Ground.
This gravestone data is a combination of four transcriptions of cemetery headstones.:
1. Frank Williamson (FW) done between 1857 and 1877 - 5600 names)
2. Frank Taylor Calef MD (1875-1941) (FTC) done in 1923 - 7500 names
3. John E. Sterling (JES) done in 1994-1997 - 30,000 names.
4. Leonard H. Bucklin, (LHB) June 2000, in company of John E. Sterling
and Elizabeth Johnson of Spaulding House Research Library, for sole
purpose of recording this grave.
More on the graves in the family plot
This family plot has Col. Hezekah Sabin in the back row of graves and his
descendents in front of him. The very left front corner of the plot has
the grave of his grandson James Bucklin, who died soon after birth. Thus
the Joseph Bucklin family began to fill in the line on the front row of graves
of this family plot. This line of graves is the end of this line of
Bucklins. Although Joseph Bucklin's siblings and uncles left vigorous
lines of descent, the Joseph Bucklin 5th who fired the "First Shot of the
Revolution" has no direct descendents.
The grave of Joseph Bucklin 4th's wife ZERVIAH is on the viewer's left of the grave of
Joseph. Her stone reads: "In memory of Zerviah wife of Capt Joseph
Bucklin and daughter of Hezekiah Sabin of Connecticut, who departed this life
September 26, 1776 in the 45th year of her age."
The grave of Sally Bucklin Ensworth, daughter of Nancy Bucklin Ensworth and
Gideon Ensworth, is to the viewer's left of Capt Joseph Bucklin. It shows
Sally Bucklin died at age 22 on 10 Nov. 1803.
And then to the viewer's right (and the last in the line of graves enclosed
by the present iron railing, is the gravestone of Nancy Bucklin Ensworth, whose
gravestone shows the is the widow of Gideon Ensworth of Canterberry CT, and that
she died 28 Sept 1826. Nancy was a teen age girl when her sister
Sally Bucklin was born, and the death of her sister when Sally was only 14
probably was the inspiration for Nancy naming her first born daughter "Sally
Bucklin Ensworth". The tragedy was that this daughter also preceded Nancy
in death. Nancy's headstone shows it was erected by Hezekiah Sabin.
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directions to find the grave in the North Burial Ground.
