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Date of death

Jul-8-1886

Date of birth

Mar-15-1811

Age

Verse (Legibility: G - GOOD)

Father Gone but not forgotten

Veteran Information

No War Periods Served

Veteran: No

Relatives

Husband of Lydia Borden Father of James, Sarah and Mary

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Stone cleaned in 2021 and repaired in 2022. Lydia Borden was born in Fall River on October 25, 1816, the sixth of seven children of Adams and Lucy Borden. Her husband, Spencer Macomber, the son of James and Betsey Macomber, was born in Raynham on March 15, 1811. The couple married in Fall River on October 15, 1835. Their son, James Spencer Macomber, identified in some documents as Spencer Jr., was born three days before Christmas in 1842. A daughter, Sarah, followed in 1844. Their third child, Mary, was born in 1852. The family lived on Blossom Road near the Freelove Farm and the property of Eli Wodell. Farm. Two months before celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, Lydia died of what was termed “brain fever” on August 10, 1885, at age 68. Brain fever sometimes came about following a nervous breakdown, was usually accompanied by a high fever and delirium, and could have been caused by a viral infection or encephalitis. She was buried at the front of the Wordell Burial Ground and was joined in death by her husband 11 months later. Spencer died on July 8, 1886, at age 75 of what was termed “valvular obstruction”, known today as aortic stenosis, a narrowing of the exit of the left ventricle of the heart, leading to heart failure. Their daughter, Mary, who never married, died of pneumonia the day after Christmas in 1907 at age 55 and was buried near the graves of her parents. Research: T Baptista