A Very Grave Matter - Judith Pike, Elias Pike - Colonial Burial Ground, Salisbury Massachusetts (MA)

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Sacred to the Memory of
Judith
wife of
Elias Pike
Daughter of
The Rev. Edward Noyes
who died
Oct. 10, 1840
Aged 81 Sacred to the Memory of
Elias Pike
who died
May 9, 1840
Aged 83
A volunteer at the battle of
Bunker Hill and an ???
Christian.

His name appears on American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions, reason: no proof of service.

Pike, Elias, Salisbury.List of men drafted from Essex Co. militia to march to Horse Neck under command of Col. Cogswell [year not given], but who failed to join regiment; said Pike drafted from town of Salisbury; drafted into Capt. Morrel's co. 2