Pocasset Cemetery (The Gibson sisters)

The Gibson sisters

This quartet of stones is in a plot near a copse of trees. Made of white sandstone, the large cracks were made from vandals that tried to topple them. The largest, in the second row, is the oldest daughter, Sarah Gibson (died April 5, 1880, aged 10; inscription: "She goeth well."); next to her is Lavinia Gibson (died April 7, 1880, aged 8; inscription: "You knowest best"). The front row (large stone) is her sister Alice Gibson (died March 21, 1879, aged 2; inscription: "She is sleeping.") and the last is Mary Gibson (died March 24, 1879, aged 12 days; inscription: "Our baby".) To lose one child is horrible; the grief of losing four over the space of a year must have been beyond reason.