ENPages That Mention Cook, Artemus
Arthur Chivers' notebooks with plot descriptions, inscriptions, and names of the interred.
hanover-cemetery-dh38-5851-9-101-003
Lot No. 101 (con.) (Students' Row)
3 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 in the
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.
4 Here was buried Sophomore Artemus Cook He died of consumption Was the fourth son of Samuel Cook Esq. of Templeton, Mass. a town containing in 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 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"