Community honors Dr. Elisha Story for his role in Boston Tea Party

BY WILLIAM J. DOWD

On Sunday morning, the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum placed a brass marker next to the late Marblehead resident Dr. Elisha Story’s gravestone in Green Street Cemetery. The placement of the medallion was the culmination of a 30-minute ceremony attended by roughly 70 people who gathered near Story’s resting place in the rain to honor the 18th-century patriot’s involvement in the Boston Tea Party, which took place 250 years ago on Dec. 16, 1773.

Marblehead Town Historian Don Doliber and the museum’s creative manager, Evan O’Brien, spoke about Story’s life and his broader involvement in the Revolutionary War.

“Many of us know the basic facts of the Boston Tea Party story,” O’Brien said. “But how much do we know about those who were involved in this brave act?”

Sunday’s commemoration was the latest in the museum’s plan to place similar commemorative markers next to the graves of all the Boston Tea Party participants throughout New England’s old burial grounds. So far over 110 have been commemorated in the lead-up to a big reenactment in December.