Grave of Elizabeth Boit, Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, Mass.

Title: Grave of Elizabeth Boit, Lakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, Mass.
Description: Photos show views of the gravestone of Elizabeth Boit in Lakeside Cemetery on North Avenue. The plot is located near "Rainbow Path" at the northern end of the cemetery.; Boit was one of the founders of the Harvard Knitting Mills, a clothing manufacturer and major employer in Wakefield in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Miss Boit also founded the Wakefield Home for Aged Women in 1894 to 'furnish a home for women who have been residents of the town of Wakefield not less than ten years. ' The home still exists at 5 Bennett Street and was renamed the 'Elizabeth E. Boit Home for Aged Women' in 1921 in recognition of Boit's contributions.; Elizabeth Boit's birth date is cited in several published sources as July 9, 1848, but the inground stone at her grave says 1849.; Photos taken at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, May 15, 2009
Contributor: Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Coverage: Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Creator: Klapes, Jeffrey M., 1964-
Date: 05-15-2009
Format: image/jpeg
Publisher: [Wakefield, Mass. : The author]
Subject: Lakeside Cemetery (Wakefield, Mass.); Sepulchral monuments; Tombs; Cemeteries; Boit, Elizabeth Eaton, 1849-1932
Type: still image; Photographs
Original Format: 2 photographs : digital, JPEG file, color