Jonathan Poole

Jonathan succeeded his father on the homestead, and also owned, in conjunction with his son John, much land at the north end of the pond.
He was the second captain of the Reading company. ‘Was much valued in Phililp’s Indian war;’ ‘was a Captain under Major Appleton, at Hadley;’ ‘was President of a Council of War in the winter of 1675-6;’ ‘was selectman, justice of the peace, and reprsentative.’
Jonathan was much valued in Philip's war, a captain under major Appleton at Hadley, and President of the council of war in the winter of 1675-6, rep 1677.

Old Burying Ground Cemetery, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

"Memento te esse mortalem."
"Fugit Hora. Vive memor l'thi. Fugit hora.
"C. ye 2d.
"Here lyes the body of Capt. Jonathan Poole, who deceased in the 44th year of his age, 1678.
"Friends sure would prove too far unkind,
If, out of sight, they leave him out of mind;
And now he lyes, transform'd to native dust,
In earth's cold womb, as other mortals must.
It's strange his matchless worth intomb'd should lye,
Or that his fame should in oblivion dye."

This stone contains the oldest date and the most artistic and elaborate work of any of the old monuments in this yard, representing, in relief, swords, hourglass, coffin, spade, pickaxe, cross-bones, etc.

Upon the erection of the town-house, in 1834, the town of South Reading purchased what was the town-house lot, or so much thereof as had not been sold, took up the old gravestones, many of which were broken and defaced, and placed them in a continuous row on the easterly side of the lot; and, if the particular dust which they memorialized did not lye beneath them, it is certainly true that the stones did lie above them.

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