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Pheoby Parker was born in Andover, Essex County, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay in August 1711, the daughter of Joseph and Lydia Parker.[1][2]
Phebe Parker married on 15 July 1730 at Dracut, Middlesex County, to John Varnum.[3] They had 13 children all born in Dracut.
She died in Dracut on 31 January 1786, in her 75th year, [4] and was buried with her husband in the Woodbine Cemetery in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, just over the town line from Dracut.[5][6] where her gravestone reads:
- Erected in memory of Mrs. Phebe Varnum relict of John Varnum Esqr.who died Jan ye 31 1786 in the 75th year of her age.'
Sources
- ↑ Topsfield Historical Society, editor, Vital Records of Andover, MA, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912), Vol. 1:294. "Parker, Pheoby, d. Joseph and Lydia, Aug. - [1711]."
- ↑ Henry Ernest Woods, editor, Vital Records of Dracut, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1907), p. 299, d. in her 75th year, and was of Andover at her marriage.
- ↑ Henry Ernest Woods, editor, Vital Records of Dracut, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1907), pp. 247, 299. "Varnum, John, and Phebe Parker of Andover, Jul 15 1730 [int. also]"
- ↑ Henry Ernest Woods, editor, Vital Records of Dracut, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1907), p. 299. "Varnum, Phebe, wid. John Esq., Jan 31 1786, in 75th yr GR2"
- ↑ Varnum, John Marshall, The Varnums of Dracutt (in Massachusetts) (Boston, MA: David Clapp & Son, Printers, 1907), p. 64.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20214311/phebe-varnum : accessed 19 July 2022), memorial page for Phebe Parker Varnum (Aug 1711–31 Jan 1786), Find A Grave: Memorial #20214311, citing Woodbine Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Denise (contributor 46820671) .
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