{"id":1738,"date":"2013-08-07T01:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2013-08-07T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T06:15:29","slug":"my-ancestor-my-neighbor-2-early-settlers-of-bradford-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/1738","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Looking at graves? Count me in!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what my four-year-old said when I told him (somewhat apologetically) where we were going.  A chance encounter had led me to discover four new ancestors of my wife, who lie in the small burying ground by the beautiful Bradford Center meeting house in Bradford, New Hampshire, only five miles (by a dirt track through a beaver bog) from our idyllic getaway home in East Washington village.  So I took our youngest along for a visit. At four years old, he already has a vast experience of visiting churches, graves, and archives; he is not shy with ancestors:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SimonJonathanMehitable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2304\" height=\"1728\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SimonJonathanMehitable.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SimonJonathanMehitable.jpg 2304w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SimonJonathanMehitable-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SimonJonathanMehitable-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2304px) 100vw, 2304px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Knight was, as his stone states, a Revolutionary soldier.  The raking light on the unusual sandstone, long broken but strongly repaired with iron, makes a dramatic sight.  <\/p>\n<p>This graveyard is lovingly tended, and all the old Revolutionary soldiers in it are carefully marked with flags.  Nearby lie my son&#8217;s other ancestors, Josiah and Mary (French) Rowe:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rowes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1259\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rowes.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rowes.jpg 1734w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rowes-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Rowes-1024x743.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In this part of the New Hampshire hill country, the once-bustling farms have almost all grown up into quiet woods, so sometimes it is easy to forget how thickly our ancestors lie all around us.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jon_Mehit_close.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jon_Mehit_close.jpg 780w, https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Jon_Mehit_close-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what my four-year-old said when I told him (somewhat apologetically) where we were going. 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