THE SURPRISING STORY BEHIND THESE REVOLUTIONARY WAR GRAVESTONES 🪦

Come along with me and visit an 18th-century burying ground in Acton, Massachusetts, as I share the surprising and not widely-known story behind some Revolutionary War gravestones. We'll also discuss lesser-known events of the morning of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, before the Acton minute company responded to the North Bridge in Concord.

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Epitaph of Capt. Isaac Davis' tombstone under the monument in Acton:
"In Memory of Capt. Isaac Davis who was slain in battle at Concord April ye 19th 1775 in the defense of ye just rights and liberties of his country
civil & religious. He was a loving husband a tender father and a kind neighbour an ingeneous craftsman & serviceable to mankind. Died in ye prime of life aged 30 years 1 month & 25 days.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon ye earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. --Job