Epitaph: He left home for California Sept. 15/ sailed from New York on the 20th, was taken sick the 21st, arrived at New York on return from the/ Isthmus Oct 9th and died full of pellagra at the city hospital early on/ the morning of October 14th 1853
Grieve not dear parents/ God doeth all things well
* Birth: 5 AUG 1834, Hope, Knox Co., Maine
* Death: 10 OCT 1853
* Reference: 12671
Father: Israel MANSFIELD
Mother: Almira Gorham BOWERS
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