22. Cousens Family

The Cousens family worked as sailmakers, with Charles establishing the family sailmaking business. His father George was a master mariner who lived at South Main and Spring Streets with his wife Joanna. They had nine children. Charles had seven children during his lifetime, but only three of them survived. The Cousens family gravestones are notable because they are made of white marble. During the Victorian era, quarries began offering this stone because it was affordable and easy to carve. Many gravesites of this time were decorated with white marble statuaries, urns, and obelisks as sentimental memorials.