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Tombstone

Tombstone of Martha J. Choate
Tombstone of Martha J. Choate
1841

The brief life of Martha J. Choate, age six weeks, is recorded in this simple memorial from a family burial plot on a New Hampshire farm. With baptismal documentation lacking, it is only because her parents marked the grave with this stone that her existence is known to us, many generations later.

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