Here, if anywhere, we can hold converse with the fathers, and feel that the names which we read were borne by men and women who were alive in our town when its inhabitants numbered but a score, and when the first grave was made of the thousands that have received the successive generations of citizens.
Sarah Loring Bailey
22 April 1834 ~ 08 September 1896
from her Historical Sketches of Andover
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