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Headstone for William Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Tombstone, Headstone
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  • 1839
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Headstone for William Spurling
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2016.374.2137
Type:
  • Object, Tombstone, Headstone
Subject:
  • People
  • Places, Cemetery
Date:
  • 1839
Description:
Headstone fragment discovered July 2016 during Spurling Revolutionary War Cemetery preservation project. White marble. Well worn and difficult to discern, the inscription reads: "William/Son of Thomas & Hannah/Spurling. William Spurling, 2nd, was born 9Dec1812 and died 23May1839. This is the only piece of William's headstone discovered to date; it was lying in the grass near the Robert Spurling footstone. One corner piece is broken off. One other small white marble fragment was collected and stored with this artifact. [show more]