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Walnut Street Cemetery including the Old Burying Ground, est. 1717 |
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TIMOTHY H. CHILDS
died July 29, 1856.
aged 72 y'rs.
Footstone (sunken or broken after 1920):
T. H. C.
"Timothy Harris Child, an eccentric old man, known as 'Daddy Child,' though he was never married. Various anecdotes are related respecting his oddities, as leaving off his farmer's frock on a certain day in the spring, by the calendar, without regard to the weather, and putting it on in the autumn, equally regardless of the season. Between these dates he was never known to wear it." H. F. W., p. 376.
Text from Harriet Alma Cummings. Burials and Inscriptions in the Walnut Street Cemetery. Brookline: The Riverdale Press, 1920.
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