Josiah and Abiah Franklin

Josiah Franklin and Abiah Franklin lived together in wedlock for fifty-five years and, without an estate or any gainful employment, maintained a large family comfortably through constant labor and honest industry, bringing up thirteen children and seven grandchildren respectably. He was regarded as a pious and prudent man, and she as a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, in filial regard for their memory, placed this stone. Josiah Franklin was born in 1655 and died in 1744 at age 89. Abiah Franklin was born in 1667 and died in 1752 at age 85.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States