graveglamour:Everyone, I want you to take a look at this stone. It’s a pretty standard stone for the
graveglamour:Everyone, I want you to take a look at this stone. It’s a pretty standard stone for the time and the area. But this is what’s really cool: the dude lived to 107…. BORN in the 1600s and DIED in the 1800s. He saw a WHOLE CENTURY. How fricking cool is that?!?!?!His second wife was also 74 years YOUNGER than he. The stone reads:Sacred to the Memory of MATTHEW WATSON who died Jan. 17, 1803Aged 107 yearsAlso SARAH, his 2d Wifedied Sept. 3, 1798Aged 28 yearsThis is in the Matthew Watson Burial Yard, Barrington, RI.Pictures taken by me, autumn 2012. -- source link
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