Luke died at the young age of 15years.
Inscription on Headstone:
In memory of Luke Viets who was shot suppos'd for a Deer and died in Becket Oct. 21st 1757 in the 15th Year of his age.
Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, Boston, Massachusetts, Various Newspaper. (Index of Obituaries, 1740 - 1800). page 496. Luke Viets of Simsbury was mistaken for a deer and shot.
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