GAMALIEL GEROULD TRADGEDIES

When you pass the cemetery, on South Street, near the Plainville line, there is no indication of the tragedy it holds. In a period of slightly more the twenty years, in the middle of the 18th century, Gamaliel Gerould had the misfortune to lose, not one, but two wives, and all of their six children. He married Rebecca Lawrence on January 7 1742 and their first child, named for his father, died on April 14 1743. A daughter named for her mother, died on July 5 1747. A second daughter, also named for her mother, died on July 5 1747, and Catee, their fourth child, died on March 14, 1749. Two years later, on January 1 1751, his wife Rebecca died. Gamaliel re-married, this time to Jerusa Mann at Dedham and their first child Ebenezer, died on July 6 1752, his remaining son died  October 15, 1753 at one year. There is no known record of Gamiliel's death at Wrentham. JJM