Sunday, February 26, 2017

AUGUSTUS GATES DIED ON THIS SPOT

Behind Target in NE Leominster, along a little brook.

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  1. Sydney10:22 AM

    Augustus Gates lived on his father's farm in Leominster "where he died suddenly of heart disease" May 4, 1894, at age 70, according to "Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of John White." found online. A cemetery photo also gives his death date as May 4, 1894, although this poignant brook-side marker reads 1896.
    Thank you for these additional finds from your excursions, Peter.

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  2. But what does it mean? Did he die near the brook or somewhere else, and why would the spot of a sudden heart disease be significant?

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  3. Anonymous7:42 AM

    For the same reason that people construct roadside memorials at the site of a traffic death...... For the same reason why native Americans constructed memorials in stone or other materials on the place where a warrior died in battle.....

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  4. Exactly my point: the location was significant to someone, but was there more to it?

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