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After driving all the way across the country already, last spring, we flew for the Cambridge festivities by way of Providence, then rented a car and drove to Somerville to stay with Chris and Mary Beth on Ten Hills Road.

On the way back, we seized the opportunity and revisited the Ancient Little Neck Burying Ground in East Providence. We had a few more questions for the excellent Michael Znosko, and he shared maps and stories with us.

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George E Read (1838-1910), the Ground’s only Medal of Honor Winner
Seaman on the Naval Warship Kearsarge in 1861
We also came away with some fifty photos (available to you in a folder named
070926 Little Neck)
of the gravestones of Brown family members, immediately adjacent to the Willett enclosure, which we documented pretty fully in the LittleNeck section of this record. We presume that they mark the graves of cousins of ours, descendants of our distinguished ninth great-grandparents John Browne, Gentleman, and Dorothy, parents of Grandma Mary Brown Willett. We’re not sure where Grandma Dorothy lies, but Grandpa John is prominent in the enclosure.

My intention was and remains to chase down those kinships and either to extend the LittleNeck section or to make a new section for them. But as my 80th birthday approaches, next February, and as so much else clamors for my attention in this record and elsewhere, it’s looking more and more as if I’ll have to leave that task for some faithful descendant who will have found my “It’s All Hepzibah’s Fault” collection worthy of interest and extension.
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