hanover-cemetery-dh38-5851-9-101-003

Lot No. 101 (con.)
(Students' Row)

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In Memory of Mr.
John Merrill
the only son of Deacon Abel Merrill
and Mrs. Anny Merrill his wife
of Newbury
in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
and a member of the
Freshman Class
at Dartmouth College
He departed this life Aug^t.
21^st 1797
in the 21^st year of his age

This stone (3)
is still legible
but some of the
letters are gone.

[drawing of gravestone]

Note the skull
on this stone
and on stone 2.

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Here was buried
August S. D. 1800
Sophomore Artemus Cook
Aet. 20
He died of consumption
Was the fourth son of
Samuel Cook Esq.
of Templeton, Mass.
a town containing in 1799
less than 1000 inhabitants
sent four of her sons
to Dartmouth College
Ere the close of the college course
two were taken and two were left
The survivor of the four in 1852
restored the record, destroyed
by decomposition of the
original headstone
An elder brother and Classmate
Amos Jones Cook,
now also at rest, had subjoined
"Live to die, and die to live"