William Fessenden (1747-1805) - Find a Grave Memorial

William Fessenden

Birth

3 Nov 1747

Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Death

6 May 1805 (aged 57)

Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA

Burial

Pine Grove Cemetery

Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, USA Add to Map

Plot

Sec 2, Lot 85

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Preacher William was a kind man with a love for children. He ministered to his congregation for the meager salary of "40 pounds a year, one third payable in Indian corn..", on which he raised his family. The success of his children and their accumulation of money, stature and/or land was due to hard work and intelligence, not any inherited wealth!

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s/o William & Mary (Palmer) Fessenden

h/o (m.1) Sarah (Reed) Fessenden (m. January 22, 1771)

h/o (m.2) Sarah (Clement) Fessenden (m. August 4, 1774)
f/o Sarah (Fessenden) Griswold, William Fessenden, Caleb Page Fessenden, Ebenezer Fessenden, General Samuel Feddenden, Mary Palmer (Fessenden) Barrows, Elizabeth Clement Fessenden, Thomas Fessenden, & Joseph Palmer Fessenden

Inscription

Wm. Fessenden born at Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 3, 1747 O.S. died at Fryeburg May 6, 1805.
Ordained first Pastor of the Congregational Church of Fryeburg, Oct. 11, 1775. He there continued to discharge all the duties of his high calling, with faithfulness until his death.
A sound and able, divine, a meek and humble christian, a model of social and domestic virtues he calmly led the way to that brighter world toward which he had so long pointed the hopes of his people.

This monument is erected in remembrance of William Fessenden and Sarah his wife in the year of our Lord 1852, by their children and grandchildren.
Indulgent memory wakes, and lo! They live!