Individual Details

Burial

The Peabody burial ground is situated on part of the old Peabody farm
in a lot planted with vegetables, near the southern wall, but not close to
it. It is about 60x40 ft., unfenced. It is near the road, to the east and a little
to the north of, and opposite, the old Congdon house, on Third Beach Road,
Middletown, the farm now (1904) owned by Edward E., s. of John R. and
Dorcas Bly (Peabody) Peckham, a direct descendant of the emigrant, John
Peabody. There are many stones so old and wrecked that the inscriptions
can not be deciphered. The oldest one at all legible, is this:

Here lyeth ye body of
Jane ye wife of John Sisson
who departed this life in
ye 23rd year of her age.
May ye first 1714.

Jane's resting place is also known as Sisson & Bly Cemetery #26