Old Farm Cemetery

No trip to an old farm site is complete without a visit to that wonderful repository of geneology and folk art, the old family cemetery. Somewhere in Northern RI is this unusual tombstone inscription.

It reads:

Erected By

John B. Brown, Son of

John B. Brown, Born

 Nov 26, 1796, Died

Aug 18, 1863,  Son of

John Brown, Son of

John Brown, Son of

Gideon Brown, Son of

Joseph Brown, Son of

James Brown, Son of

Chad Brown, who came 

to Providence RI 1637

There are a few old homemade headstones,

and a poignant reminder of the hard work of farm life.