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Date of death

May-1-1882

Date of birth

Jul-15-1803

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Verse (Legibility: G - GOOD)

Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep from which none ever wake to weep a calm and undisturbed repose unbroken by the last of foes.

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No War Periods Served

Veteran: No

Relatives

Husband of Sylvia Mosher.

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Married Sylvia Mosher in 1827 Stone cleaned in 2021 and repaired in 2022 No less than seven generations of Wordells in North Westport carried the name from the 1700s into the early 1900s. According to written history (which differs from some of the online data), Gershom Wordell VI was born in Westport on July 14, 1803 to Gershom Wordell V and the former Peace Borden. From an early age, Gershom VI was raised to be a farmer, as his ancestors had been. During his early adult years, he was drawn to the shipyards of New Bedford, where a bustling whaling industry that required ongoing construction and repair of vessels, provided a steady income. On September 16, 1827, he married Sylvia Mosher, born in North Dartmouth on February 14, 1805. Soon after, Gershom and Sylvia moved to Dartmouth, where he returned to farming. As their family grew- the couple would have ten children in total- Gershom moved his clan to North Westport, settling on a piece of his father’s farm and building his own farmhouse in the early 1830s. The Wordells had considerable land holdings in Westport and other South Coast communities. Sylvia died at age 63 in October of 1868 and was buried in the Wordell Cemetery, where Old Bedford Road and Sanford Road now meet. Members of the Wordell family would be interred here for close to 200 years. For the remainder of his life, Gershom VI was a successful farmer who operated a market garden- producing fruits and vegetables as cash crops which could be sold directly to consumers or even restaurants. Gershom Wordell VI died on May 1, 1882 in his 79th year. The cause of death was recorded as “old age”. In a 1976 interview with Mary Giles, North Westport potato farmer Henry Sampson (1916-2008), who lived at 222 Old Bedford Road, the Sampson Farm, recalled, “this farm was the Wordells, my mother’s father. Grandfather (Rufus) had the two barns for horses that they used as teams to pull when they were building the (granite) mills in Fall River. He ran a sand and gravel business. The farm was a sideline. This was a small farm, and then we acquired other small farms.” Research: T Baptista

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