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Cited in: Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers, Daniel F. Johnson, Volume 39 Number 903
Date June 23 1876
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The trueman monument for which the trueman descendants arranged at their centennial meeting has been completed and set up by H.J. McGrath. It is a spire of Carara (Italian) marble, 5 feet high and 6 inches at the base, supported by a plain marble base, beneath which is a blue granite rock from Eagle Rock quarries, Me. The inscription is: In Memory of / William trueman / Who emigrated to New Brunswick / From Yorkshire, England, / With his family in 1775 / Died 28th February 1797, / Aged 77 years, / And his wife Ann, / Who died 29th January, 1800, / Aged 87 years // In Memory of / William trueman / Only Son of / William and Ann trueman, / Who came to America / With his parents, / And after being 51 years in Westmorland / Died in peace Sept. 9th, / 1826 / Aged 74 years. / Also of Elizabeth his wife / Who came to America / From Shelton, England / In the year 1774, / And died 22nd April 1825, / Aged 67 years. / They left 7 sons and 3 daughters / Erected in 1875 by their descendants who / now number 523 (cross reference Elizabeth trueman) |
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