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Consumption's Vampire Grasp

            Union Cemetery Annex
North Smithfield, RI
The curious grave of Simon Whipple Aldrich

* this was taken at 2PM using off camera flash and NOT taken at night *

As far as I can tell, the only New England gravestones that actually have the word "vampire" carved into it.  To be far, it is referring to the disease of "Consumption" or what is better known now as TB or Tuberculosis, the "wasting disease".  The symptoms of TB were thought to be the act of a vampire.  Today we know better.

While I cannot find any backstory to Mr. Simon Whipple Aldrich, it sure is interesting to see the word vampire spelt on a New England grave.

The stone has been stolen several times so it is now firmly cemented in place but covering or covering the fact that some of the text has been broken off during vandalism.  The vampire reference is from the lines of an 1838 poem by Eliza Earle.  The full text used to read:

In Memory
of
SIMON WHIPPLE
youngest son of
Col. DEXTER ALDRICH
& MARGERY his wife,
who died May 6,
1841,
aged 27 years.

~•~

Altho' consumption's vampire grasp
had seized thy mortal frame,
Thy ardent and inspiring mind
untouched, remained the same.

   

Taken in: United States / Rhode Island / Woonsocket / Globe (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2024

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