Taphophile Twins

10/28/2025

They’re not wrong!

Just grabbed the last one! ☺️

10/21/2025

Is your family’s historic site as cool as this?

Every year, we participate in the Alden Historic Site’s Annual Halloween Haunted House. When I dove deep into my family tree back in 2020, I found John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden who lived right nearby in Duxbury. As it turned out, their children’s house is still standing and is a National Historic Landmark.

We love all things spooky and I had the privilege of playing Aunt Rachel in this year’s “Aunt Rachel’s Curse,” along with my husband and son.

We’re very excited for next year’s Revolutionary semiquincentennial. It will not disappoint! #1776

10/11/2025

Gave Mr. Wade some help.

10/01/2025

09/02/2025

I never thought I would have to ask an adult to not climb a tree in a historic cemetery, but it’s 2025 so here we are.

08/27/2025

I feel like I need to tell the designers of these “gravestones” that they’re mixing genres. Soul effigies wouldn’t be found on the same stones as this kind of dimensional scroll work. The slate wouldn’t hold up to it.

08/10/2025

“They ripped out every American flag off the veterans’ graves, specifically broke them and threw them on the ground. But what’s worse than that is they toppled over and broke scores of old cemetery headstones, anywhere from 150 plus years old some of these stones. Some of them were actually picked up and smashed."

Story: https://www.wabi.tv/2025/08/04/montville-community-seeking-answers-after-nearly-50-headstones-toppled-destroyed/

07/20/2025

Do you like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the…notorious rum trade in 18th century colonial New England? Peter Bowen of Salisbury, New Hampshire made himself quite a name in a small New England village before transporting his family to Corinth, Vermont.

“What’s wrong with being thankful?”On the surface, it seems like an innocent question. Placed within its context – asked on a lineage page for a historic New England couple on the day prior to Thanksgiving and accompanied by a diatribe on their wondrous works, it was less so. The inquirer pr...

06/25/2025

That’s…not what I meant.

05/24/2025

Distant cousin Joseph Lincoln was the father of Elisha Lincoln who made his way to Abington, MA and is buried at Mount Zion Cemetery. Mount Zion is now located in Whitman since the town annexed in 1875 and we are celebrating our 150th anniversary this year.

Elisha married Rachel Tirrel of Weymouth in 1718 and they had 13 children, about half of whom survived to adulthood.

In researching the lives of Rachel and her children, I (Taphophile 1) reached out to a gentleman on Ancestry who had them listed in his tree to inquire about some information I hadn’t yet encountered and learn of its source. A few weeks back, he visited us at Mount Zion and I had the privilege of introducing him to his many times over great grandparents, Elisha and Rachel.

Rachel’s grave marker touches me deeply as it is different from so many others of her day and reads, “seven children lay at her right hand and 2 other children in distant burying places.” It is unusual to see for its day and age where maternal grief was, by and large, ignored due to a Calvinist belief system.

Please visit our website to learn more about her, her children, and the Lincoln’s connection to the American Revolution.

https://www.taphophiletwins.com/post/seven-children-at-her-right-hand-and-two-in-distant-burying-places