This is the grave of Richard and Charles Hoopar who both skipped church one Sunday in August 1693 and were poisoned by eating poison mushrooms.
It's a theory that both boys were Native Americans and given Christian names.
This is the oldest extant grave in the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground. The tombstone was recently refurbished in Mass and rededicated October 2003.
The original inscription on the stone reads as follows-wrote as it is written on the stone:
Spataters Vnderneath this tomb
lies 2 boyes that lay in one womb
the eldest was full 12 years old
the yongest was V twice told
by eating mushroms for food
rare in a days time they poyseond
were Richard Hoopar and Charles Hoopar.
Desesed Avgvst Anno Dom 1693
An edited version reads as follows:
Spectators, beneath this tomb lay two brothers, aged 12 and 10 years. They died within one day of eating poisoned mushrooms. Their names were Richard and Charles Hoopar and they died in 1693.
It's a theory that both boys were Native Americans and given Christian names.
This is the oldest extant grave in the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground. The tombstone was recently refurbished in Mass and rededicated October 2003.
The original inscription on the stone reads as follows-wrote as it is written on the stone:
Spataters Vnderneath this tomb
lies 2 boyes that lay in one womb
the eldest was full 12 years old
the yongest was V twice told
by eating mushroms for food
rare in a days time they poyseond
were Richard Hoopar and Charles Hoopar.
Desesed Avgvst Anno Dom 1693
An edited version reads as follows:
Spectators, beneath this tomb lay two brothers, aged 12 and 10 years. They died within one day of eating poisoned mushrooms. Their names were Richard and Charles Hoopar and they died in 1693.
This is the grave of Richard and Charles Hoopar who both skipped church one Sunday in August 1693 and were poisoned by eating poison mushrooms.
It's a theory that both boys were Native Americans and given Christian names.
This is the oldest extant grave in the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground. The tombstone was recently refurbished in Mass and rededicated October 2003.
The original inscription on the stone reads as follows-wrote as it is written on the stone:
Spataters Vnderneath this tomb
lies 2 boyes that lay in one womb
the eldest was full 12 years old
the yongest was V twice told
by eating mushroms for food
rare in a days time they poyseond
were Richard Hoopar and Charles Hoopar.
Desesed Avgvst Anno Dom 1693
An edited version reads as follows:
Spectators, beneath this tomb lay two brothers, aged 12 and 10 years. They died within one day of eating poisoned mushrooms. Their names were Richard and Charles Hoopar and they died in 1693.
It's a theory that both boys were Native Americans and given Christian names.
This is the oldest extant grave in the Piscatawaytown Burial Ground. The tombstone was recently refurbished in Mass and rededicated October 2003.
The original inscription on the stone reads as follows-wrote as it is written on the stone:
Spataters Vnderneath this tomb
lies 2 boyes that lay in one womb
the eldest was full 12 years old
the yongest was V twice told
by eating mushroms for food
rare in a days time they poyseond
were Richard Hoopar and Charles Hoopar.
Desesed Avgvst Anno Dom 1693
An edited version reads as follows:
Spectators, beneath this tomb lay two brothers, aged 12 and 10 years. They died within one day of eating poisoned mushrooms. Their names were Richard and Charles Hoopar and they died in 1693.
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