Here is the stone of Mehitable Cook, a young woman laid to rest in the Old Clifton Cemetery, Colchester County. She died in 1870 at the age of 25 of “pulmonary consumption”, leaving behind husband John Cook.
Records suggest she was born in 1845 in Princeport, NS, to parents William and Susan Creelman (Laughead).
The name Mehitable comes from the Old Testament; I’ve seen variations of it used multiple times among New England Planters, with a few gals nicknamed “Hettie”.
“And must this body die,
This mortal frame decay,
And must these active limbs of mine
Lie mouldering in the clay”
– from Resurrection of the Saints by Isaac Watts
Rest in peace, Mehitable <3
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/257599411/mehitable-cook
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z5CV-DGZM
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZPPD-6F2M
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM9C-K3Z