Solomon Drowne. Solomon Drowne Dr. Solomon Drowne (also known as Solomon Drown) (March 11, 1753 – February 5, 1834) was a prominent American physician, academic and surgeon during the American Revolution and in the history of the fledgling United States. Early life[edit] Drowne was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1753. His father (also named Solomon, as was his father) was a merchant and was heavily involved in the civic affairs of the town. The Drowne family was also active in the First Baptist Church in America.[1] Drowne's great-uncle Shem Drowne made the famous grasshopper weather vane atop of Faneuil Hall in Boston.
American Revolutionary War[edit] From 1776 to 1780, during the Revolutionary War, Drowne served as a surgeon in different hospitals and with different regiments throughout the Continental Army. After the war[edit] In 1783, Drowne was elected to the Brown University (then still known as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ) board of fellows. Shem Drowne. Faneuil Hall weathervane Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famous for the grasshopper weathervane atop of Faneuil Hall, well known as a symbol of Boston. Background[edit] He was born near Sturgeon Creek in what is now Eliot, York County, Maine. Shem married Katherine Clark on September 18, 1712 in Boston. Simeon Drowne, Shem's younger brother, was the fourth son of Leonard Drowne.
Life[edit] Shem[1] was a coppersmith with a shop on Ann Street (now North Street) in the North End. Career: pioneering metalworker and America's first weathervane maker[edit] According to the colonial diarist Thomas Newell, Shem Drowne "was the first tin plate worker that ever came to Boston, New England The Grasshopper Weathervane[edit] Faneuil Hall in 1740 In 1768 Thomas placed a note labeled "food for the grasshopper" in the belly of the grasshopper. Copp's Hill Burying Ground. Copp's Hill Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in Boston. It was originally named "North Burying Ground". History[edit] The cemetery was founded on February 20, 1659, when the town bought land on Copp's Hill from John Baker and Daniel Turell to start the "North Burying Ground".
Now named "Copp's Hill Burying Ground" (although often referred to as "Copp's Hill Burial Ground"), it is the second oldest cemetery in Boston (second only to the King's Chapel Burying Ground founded in 1630). It contains the remains of various notable Bostonians from the colonial era. On the Snow Hill Street side are the many unmarked graves of the African Americans who lived in the "New Guinea" community at the foot of the hill. In addition to the graves there are 272 tombs, most of which bear inscriptions that are still legible. By 1840 the cemetery had fallen into near disuse but the town continued to maintain the site intermittently. View of Copp's Hill Burying Ground, 1895 Notable burials[edit] See also[edit] Copp's Hill. Copp's Hill is an elevation in the historic North End of Boston, Massachusetts.
It is bordered by Hull Street, Charter Street and Snow Hill Street. The hill takes its name from William Copp, a shoemaker who once owned the land. [citation needed] Copp's Hill Burying Ground is a stop on the Freedom Trail. Early history[edit] Like all of the Shawmut Peninsula, the hill was Algonquian territory before the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The first English settlers to the hill arrived in the 1630s and built a windmill atop the hill to grind grain. Copp's Hill Burying Ground[edit] Founded by the town of Boston in 1659, Copp's Hill Burying Ground is the second oldest burying ground in the city. Revolutionary War[edit] During the Revolutionary War, the British used the hill to train artillery onto Charlestown.
Skinny House[edit] Across the street from the Copp's Hill Burying Ground is an extremely narrow four-story spite house built shortly after the Civil War. The vista[edit] True Tombstone Epitaphs. Funny Stones To Tickle Your Funny Bones By June Shaputis copyright 1980 The living have the opportunity to engrave in stone some thought appropriate to the character, or circumstances surrounding the death, of the deceased individual. Some epitaphs are unique and very revealing. It is difficult to find anything entertaining about a death, but on occasion, death can be humorous and bizarre.
Sometimes, humor can be found where least likely. Cemeteries, for example, can be startlingly funny to the uninitiated. Many epitaphs are unintentionally, and sometimes, intentionally, amusing. Conceivably, the stonecutter or the family members did not realize how future generations would look upon their attempt to memorialize the deceased loved one. In most large cemeteries, you will probably find an epitaph that goes something like this one found in Waynesville, North Carolina: Effie Jean Robinson Come blooming youths, as you pass by , And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I; G. Tombstone Epitaphs' -- fun for Senior Citizens. Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records. Find A Death. WEHT.net: The Online Compendium of 'What Ever Happened To?' and 'Where Are They Now?' Marblehead: Old Burial Hill.