Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Asa Thorp

Asa Thorp (aka Thorpe or Tharp) is the father of last week's Tombstone Tuesday children, Roswell and Eunice Tharp.  He is buried with them in the Old Center Cemetery at North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.  According to Ancient Families of New Haven, Asa was born about 1768 to Jacob and Eunice (Bishop) Thorpe and married Lydia Pardee.

Copyright 2010-2013.

In
Memory of
ASA THORP.
who died
Dec. 10 1849
AE 81.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tombstone Tuesday - Roswell and Eunice Tharp

Stones like this one always both intrigue and sadden me.  It is the stone of two young siblings, Roswell and Eunice Thorpe (aka Thorp or Tharp), and is located in the Old Center Cemetery of North Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.  According to Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, they were the children of Asa Thorpe and Lydia Pardee.  Based on the information in that series, Asa Thorpe I believe was a first cousin to my 5th great-grandmother, Mabel (Thorpe) Alling.

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Roswell Tharp died Octo 13th
1794 In the 4th Year of his Age.
Eunice Tharp died March 23d
1794 In the 1st Year of her Age.
Children of Asa &
Lydia Tharp.