A Tombstone Tirade in New Hampshire
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 330 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a cemetery safari in Milford, New Hampshire, to visit the final resting place of Caroline Cutter. Cutter died in 1842. Her headstone features a 150-word tirade against specific members of the Baptist church in town. When small-town church gossip makes it to a headstone, it becomes immortal.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a cold January day in Milford, New Hampshire, Jeff. |
| 0:06.0 | It is, and it's about to get a little colder here in a minute, Ray. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's head up this small hill here on Elm Street and go through those gates. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, we're in a cemetery now. It's not very large, about an acre in size, surrounded by a short stone wall. |
| 0:25.7 | And there's a few hundred headstones in here. |
| 0:27.6 | So this cemetery was established in 1788. It's the second in town. And there's 40 Revolutionary War soldiers buried here. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, that's cool. So it's an historic place. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, that it is. Now, we've said before that every headstone tells some kind of story. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:43.2 | It's a literal monument saying this person was here, even if it's just a last name and two dates. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, I agree. It's the Reader's Digest version of a life. |
| 0:51.5 | And sometimes we come across an epitaph so epic that the story is all laid |
| 0:56.6 | out there for all to see. Let's sit over here just by the gate. Whoa, look at that. This |
| 1:03.9 | headstone is covered in words. Yeah. I've seen newspaper articles shorter than this. This is the grave |
| 1:08.7 | of Caroline Cutter. She died in 1842. What follows is a |
| 1:13.3 | diatribe of venom, making this not only the longest epitaph we've ever seen, but maybe |
| 1:19.0 | one of New England's few hate stones. |
| 1:33.8 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 330 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:35.0 | Happy New Year. |
| 1:37.0 | It's our first episode of 2024, Ray. |
| 1:39.8 | And happy new year from your old buddy Ray Osier. |
| 1:40.9 | Jeff, happy new year. |
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