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  Identified Gravestone Carvers

March 2002 - The following gravestone carvers in Walker-Blake Graveyard have been identified by Laurel K. Gabel, Pittsford, NY, nationally known gravestone authority and co-author with Theodore Chase of Gravestone Chronicles, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, 1990. The list is ordered by gravestone number, name on gravestone with date of death, followed by the gravestone carver. This list which will expand as conservation continues.

 
No. Description
#4 Hannah Rose, d. January 20, 1884 - S. Brooks & Co., Providence, Rhode Island.
#5 Samuel Rose, d. October 25, 1880 - S. Brooks & Co.
#6 Joseph Rose, d. December 31, 1873 - S. Brooks, Providence, Rhode Island.
#18 Mrs. Ruth Wing, d. September 9, 1839 - Hathaway.
#19 John Rose, d. June 7, 1859 - D. A. Burt, Taunton.
#22 Nathan Walker, d. February 10, 1791 - Barney Leonard?
#31 Mr. Nehemiah Walker, d. October 4, 1760 - probably Stevens, could be John Bull
#48 Joseph Atwood, d. September 26, 1724 - probably Philip Stevens
#55a Abigail Walker, d. July 14, 1747 - John Bull
#58 John Atwood, d. June 27, 1755 - William Stevens
#68 Marcy Eliot, d. August 28, 1758 - Peter Barker
#83 Mr. Cornelius White, d. April 18, 1754 - "J. B."
#86 Mr. William Holloway, d. October 7, 1778 - Barney Leonard or Jabez Carver
#87 Josiah Holloway, d. October 9, 1771 - Jabez Carver? One of the "Taunton School of Tendril Carvers."
#94 Bathsheba Walker, d. February 24, 1738 - probably John Bull, could be Stevens
#95 James Walker, d. June 22, 1718 - probably John Stevens II
#96 Eleazar Walker, d. December 15, 1724 - John Stevens I or II.
#108 Charles Andrew Tripp, d. Nov. 22, 1846 - S. Warren.
#132 Capt. Cornelius White, d. November 18, 1787 - Jabez Carver or Dean or Barney Leonard


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