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Ruth D Borden

Lot Title

none
Location in Cemetery
Section: a     Lot: --     Grave: --

Date of death

Feb-11-1892

Date of birth

0-0-1827

Age

65 yrs   0 mths   0 dys

Verse (Legibility: N/A)

Unspecified

Veteran Information

No War Periods Served
Veteran: No

Relatives

Daughter of Job Borden and Rachel Brownell.

Other Information

Died at Poor Farm. No stone. Information from Alms House Records. Cause of death pneumonia; She was mentally disabled and listed in the 1870 census as "idiotic". At the time, an idiot was "a person the development of whose mental faculties were arrested in infancy or childhood before coming to maturity." Today, a number of known disabilities would have fallen under this category, including Downs Syndrome and severe autism.

Cemetery

FRIENDS - NORTH


Address

19 Main Road
Westport
Massachusetts
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Supplementary Information

70   Marked Stones in this Cemetery
234   Unmarked Stones (Fieldstones) in this Cemetery

G.R. 6. - gravestone record, Centre (Friends')Cemetery, Gifford's Corner, Westport Vital Records to 1850. There are 234 unmarked stones - likely these are stones pre-dating the year 1850 when Friends/Quakers did not engrave their tombstones. The earliest known/recorded date of death at this cemetery is 1799.

Map Details

GPS North: 41.62263
GPS West: 71.08022
(Readings from: center)

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