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It was well past noon when we broke for lunch at the Canoe Club, on Nipmuck Pond in Mendon.

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Oak Hill and Old Cemetery are adjacent to each other, around a corner and up a steep drive just off the highway.

The J.M.Sargent Post 130, GAR

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Looking back down toward the road, in the foreground are the tombstones of Bennoni Thomson and John Thomson, and an unmarked tombstone, perhaps that of John's wife, Thankful Woodland.

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This Adams monument is of an unusual design.

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HERE LIES INTERR'D
Ye BODY OF Ye REV MR.
ELNATHAN WIGHT DE
CEAS'D NOV Ye 6TH 1761
IN Ye. 46TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
& 12TH OF HIS MINISTRY

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While you are standing here to read
Prepare for Death with care and speed
For sure it is that you will die
And hasten to eternity
Prepare for Death he often said
Who in this silent grave is laid