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Walnut Street Cemetery including the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717 |
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In memory of
MARTHA W. HILL.
wife of
Isaac M. W. Adams
who died June 3, 1830
aged 28 y'rs.
We part to meet again
Footstone: M. W. H. A.
Footstone: I. M. W. A.
"Isaac Adams came to Brookline about the year 1815-16. The history of Master Adams and his methods is a chapter which will shed much light on the progress of Brookline during the last forty years.
"He married Miss Martha Washington Hill of Portsmouth and after her death he had her name incorporated into his own by act of legislature, on this wise: 'Isaac Mahtra Wanshongtri Adams.'
"He was one of the first schoolmasters in the old brick school house on Walnut Street. William Hyslop gave to the town the triangular piece of ground in the fork of the roads, west of the church, for a site for the old brick school house in 1793.
"Requiescat in pace, Master Adams! We trust thou hast found the Great Master more lenient with thee, than thou wert to his little ones." H. F. W., Chap. XII. Pub. 1871.
Text from Harriet Alma Cummings. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery. Brookline: The Riverdale Press, 1920.
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Edgerly (Lot 62)
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Cook (Lot 1)
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