{"id":25,"date":"2015-06-02T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-06-02T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T01:17:06","slug":"oldest-stone-in-the-burying-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Stone in the Burying Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>FindaGrave<\/em> page for Ann Erinton in the &#8220;Old Burying Ground&#8221; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, indicates that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=49955066\">her stone is the oldest one in the cemetery<\/a>. \u00a0It is old compared to most stones I&#8217;ve encountered in my research. Ann\u00a0died on 25 December 1653 according to her tombstone and I&#8217;m assuming that it was erected relatively soon after her death.\u00a0Ann is an ancestress of mine with a litany of &#8220;greats&#8221; in front of &#8220;grandmother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It got me to wondering what&#8217;s the &#8220;oldest&#8221; stone on\u00a0<em>FindaGrave? <\/em>It&#8217;s not necessarily an easy question. Dating \u00a0such a stone is somewhat problematic as stones can be erected decades after the person is buried. And I&#8217;m not really interested in stones for royalty or other notables&#8230;rather a &#8220;normal&#8221; person, if there is such a thing. Non-normal people have had some sort of tombstones long before normal people tended to have them.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0FindaGrave page for Ann Erinton in the &#8220;Old Burying Ground&#8221; in Cambridge, Massachusetts, indicates that her stone is the oldest one in the cemetery. \u00a0It is old compared to most stones I&#8217;ve encountered in my research. Ann\u00a0died on 25 December 1653 according to her tombstone and I&#8217;m assuming that it was erected relatively soon after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ann-erinton","tag-tombstones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}