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James H. Morse

Lot Title

James Reed
Location in Cemetery
Section: a     Lot: 16     Grave: 4

Date of death

Nov-5-1854

Date of birth

0-0-0

Age

0 yrs   5 mths   0 dys

Verse (Legibility: G - GOOD)

Our baby.

Veteran Information

No War Periods Served
Veteran: No

Relatives

Son of Benjamin S. Morse and Adeline (On the stone)

Stone Shape

R - ROUNDED TOP

Stone Decoration

Unspecified

Stone Condition

G - GOOD

Stone Material

M - MARBLE

State of Stone

R - REPAIRED

Other Information

Stone was cracked and loose on base due to a failed pin. Pin was moved, stone was cleaned, repaired and reattached to base in August 2021. James was the son of Benjamin Swift Morse, a farmer who was born in Rochester. On September 28, 1853, at age 29 he married a Westport woman, 23 year old Adeline Reed, the daughter of James and Anna Reed. Nine months later, James H. Morse was born but the family would soon be torn apart. In the days before antibiotics, Adeline never recovered from the delivery of her son and died on September 5, 1854 at age 24. Her father, James bought plot 16 at Linden Grove and buried her there. Exactly two months later, the motherless child, James, died at the age of 5 months. He was laid to rest alongside his mother. “Our Baby” was carved into his gravestone. In the years that followed, both James and Anna Reed would be buried beside their daughter and grandson. Benjamin Morse never remarried. He moved in with his sister, Emma, her husband, Gavin Craig, and their children and traveled across the country with them, farming their homesteads. In 1880, they were living in Nebraska. In 1910, they were residing in Los Angeles, California. It was there that Benjamin Morse died on April 27, 1917 at the age of 93, nearly 63 years after his wife’s death. Emma and Gavin both died in the 1920s and all are buried in California.

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Cemetery


LINDEN GROVE


Address

0 Reed Road
Westport
Massachusetts
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Supplementary Information

1,257   Marked Stones in this Cemetery
0   Unmarked Stones (Fieldstones) in this Cemetery

G.R. 2. - Gravestone record, Linden Grove Cemetery, Head of Westport, Vital Records to 1850. The cemetery was originally supervised by the private group, Linden Grove Association, but is now part of Town of Westport property and supervised by the Town Cemetery Director. This cemetery is next to Maple Grove Cemetery. There are three additions to the data for Linden Grove not available for the private cemeteries: photo(s) of each stone, a map of the cemetery showing relative locations of lots and the name of the owner(s) of the lot. There is only one "section" in Linden Grove. The Westport Gravestone Cleaning and Restoration Group has cleaned all the stones in Linden Grove using D/2 Biological Solution for cleaning. Most broken and leaning stones have been restored as of June 2023. Funding has been provided for training of the persons doing the work using CPA funding. CPA funding has also paid for supplies. Information on many of the interred has also been provided by Laura Oliviera, Todd Baptista and Troy Rebello.

Map Details

GPS North: 41.62386
GPS West: 71.05688
(Readings from: entrance)

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