Nathanael Mather, Salem, Massachusetts 1688 – the skull with wings signifying death and mortality are death head images which were popular in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Nathanael Mather was Cotton Mather’s precocious brother, who entered Harvard at the age of twelve.
"Momento Mori" is latin for (Remember Death)
On his stone is the following MR. NATHANAEL MATHER
DEC.d OCTOBER Ye 17
1688
AN AGED PERSON THAT HAD SEEN BUT
NINETEEN WINTERS IN THE WORLD
White imagery on Black shirt short or *long sleeve style.
