Ebenezer Everett (1766-1842)
Meletiah “Millie” Gay Everett (1770-1790)
Sarah Morse Everett (1772-1828)
Moses Everett (1790-1862)
Nancy Rhodes Everett (1794-1852)
John Everett (1828-1829)
According to Fred Holland Day, sometime shortly after the railroad was put through South Dedham (in 1849), part of the burying ground was washed away by a terrible storm. There is a record of a destructive storm taking place on January 22, 1855. Day goes on to say that “There is no record of the many graves so destroyed, but it is certain that no small number disappeared at that time.”
The line of stones set side-by-side in lot 94 were likely placed there following that storm, which may have washed away the original gravesites. They belong to the Everett family, and, through them, to a few other well-known Tiot families.
Ebenezer Everett was born on May 12, 1766 in Dedham. His parents were Ebenezer Everett and Abigail Bacon. He was a farmer, a common occupation in South Dedham in the 18th century. On August 27, 1788, Ebenezer married Melitiah Gay. Known as “Millie,” she was the daughter of Jesse Gay and Sarah Gould. Her sisters, Lucy, Sintha, and Sarah are interred in lot 82. Ebenezer and Millie had a son, Moses Everett, born on February 4, 1790. Millie Gay Everett died a few months later, on April 15, 1790, at 20 years of age.
On July 24, 1792, Ebenezer Everett married Sarah Morse, daughter of Oliver Morse and Sarah Pettee Morse. Sarah was born on February 22, 1772. Ebenezer and Sarah went on to have nine children. Of these children, their son, Willard, married Lucy Dean, and their daughter, Vina, married Samuel Elliot Pond, one of Norwood’s first selectmen.
Sarah Morse Everett died on November 10, 1828. Ebenezer Everett died on March 15, 1842.
Meanwhile, Moses Everett, the son of Ebenezer and Millie Gay Everett, married Nancy Rhoads on January 9, 1814. She was the daughter of Eliphalet and Mercy Holland Rhoads (lot 114). Moses and Nancy had nine children of their own, one of whom, John Everett, born in 1828, died a year later on December 21, 1829 of heart disease.
Nancy Rhoads Everett died on January 7, 1852; Moses Everett died on March 17, 1862.
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