Cemetery Inscriptions and Epitaphs

These epitaphs appear on the gravestones in the Connecticut Farms Cemetery of the Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church. This is not a complete listing. Epitaphs that are not complete and unreadable are not present in this listing. Enjoy the devotional reflection and comfort and the occasional admonishing these writings give.

Special thanks must go to Kay Nearing, an elder of Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church, for her countless hours in the cemetery and at her computer. Kay laboriously transcribed tombstone epitaphs and citations. She spent many early morning and twilight hours on her knees reading stones. No tombstone escaped her painstaking commitment to excellence of data collection. She has combed through old cemetery files. She brought passion and an understanding of what the cemetery represents to the faith community of Connecticut Farms Church.

As a result of her work, the Church and its cemetery corporation has the most up-to-date listing of burials in the cemetery than any other time in its 275 year history.

Thanks also to John Rudert for his efforts in the restoration and preservation of the church cemetery.

John Allen
Date of death: 1826		 Let this vain world engage no more
Behold the gaping tomb!
It bids you feize the prefent hour:
To-morrow Death may come.
Sarah Pennington Averill
Date of death: 1818		 How short the (illegible) of human things
How transfient are the Joys.
The Flow'r that in the Morning springs
The Evening blast destroys.
Sarah Pennington Averill
Date of death: 1819		 How short the (illegible) of human things
How transfient are the Joys.
The Flow'r that in the Morning springs
The Evening blast destroys.
Elizabeth Baker
Date of death: 1821		 Ye objects of my earthly love,
Improve the talents giv'n:
Then Death fhall lift your fouls above
And land you fafe in Heav'n.
Josiah W. Baker
Date of death: 1814		 Thy mother weeps sweet babe for you
Her tears shall oft thy grave bedew.
Miller Baker
Date of death: 1810		 Here lies in folemn filence, & fhall lie,
Until the Judgment Trump thall rend the fky,
The dufty part of him, who once did fhare
The fweet domeftic fmile, & friendly care.
Ah, much lamented ftroke, the virtu's mourn,
The tear of sorrow falls around his urn.
But fighs are unavailing weep no more
We truft he triumphs on the blifsful fhore.
Peter Baker
Date of death: 1823		 Farewell my friends, who mourn & weep
Over the grave wherein I sleep:
Prepare for Death, for you must die
And be entom'd as well as I.
Ethan Baldwin
Date of death: 1829		 We mourn a tender Father's love;
His fpirit's gone to Worlds above:
His languishing head is at rest;
Its fightings & achings are o'er:
This quiet immovable breast,
Is heav'd by affliction no more.
John N. Baldwin
Date of death: 1833		 In faith he died in dust he lies,
But faith foresees that dust shall rise:
When Christ with his Almighty word
Calls his dead saints to meet their Lord.
Laetitia Alnor Baldwin
Date of death: 1805		 after a tedious and painfull illness
which she bore with christian fortitude.
Her trials o'er, her toilsome race is run,
The christians prize, a crown of Glory won;
From tongues seraphic, notes of welcome flow,
That hail her soaring from a world of woe;
In robes of light she joins the anjelic choir,
And tunes of hymns of praise the golden lyre.
Lewis Baldwin
Date of death: 1796		 Sudden and awful was the death
That did him from this world remove
He in an instant lost his breath
And wing his flight to worlds unknown.
Matthias W. Baldwin
Date of death: 1850		 In the midst of life I am in death.
Thomas Baldwin
Date of death: 1821		 Therefore be ye also ready; for in
such an hour as ye think not, the Son
of Man cometh. Matt. xxiv.44
Let friends no more my suff'rings mourn,
Nor view my relics, with concern:
O cease to drop the pitying tear;
I've past, beyond the reach of fear.
Alfred Baldwine
Date of death: 1818		 Happy Infant early blest
Rest in peaceful slumbers rest
Esther Baldwine
Date of death: 1816		 This sudden death which to us all,
Contains a loud and solemn call
To all the friends and neighbours too
Prepare to bid this world adieu.
For God who governs all things for the best
Was pleas'd to call her to eternal rest.
David Ball
Date of death: 1862		 His soul rests in peace.
Edward Ball
Date of death: 1815		 Children, come view my bed of clay,
And pillows of the ground;
Where your fair bodies foon muft lay,
And fods fhall wrap you round.
Sarah Beach
Date of death: 1790		 Ufeful fhe was in Life:
Happy in her Death.
Aaron Bonnell
Date of death: 1793		 I take thefe little Lambs, faid He,
And lay them in my breaft;
Protection they fhall find in me,
In me be ever bleft.
Phebe Bonnell
Date of death: 1789		 I take thefe little Lambs, faid He,
And lay them in my breaft;
Protection they fhall find in me,
In me be ever bleft.
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Jofeph Bonnell
Date of death: unknown		 Who knew him living muft Lament him Dead
Whofe corpse beneath this Verdant Turf is Laid
Bonnel in Private Life & Publick Truft
Was Wife and kind, was Generous and Juft
In Vertues rigid path Unmoved he Trod
To Self impartial pious To his God
Religious patron & a Patriot True
A General Good & private Blefsing too
What Bonnel was & what his Vertues were
The Refurrection day will beft declare.
Margaret Bonnell
Date of death: 1857		 Faithful unto death.
Susan Budd VerValen Bonnell
Date of death: 1929		 "Till we meet again."
William H. Bonnell
Date of death: 1915		 Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord
Mary Brant
Date of death: 1788		 Dear Friends who live to mourn & weep
To see this grave wherein I fleep
Prepare for death for you muft die
And be entom'd as well as I.
Phebe Brant
Date of death: 1799		 Mourn not for me my friends
Since God has thought it beft
To take my foul to rest
from here below to
his eternal reft.
John Brokaw
Date of death: 1788		 Tis God that lifts our comfort high
Or finks them in the grave,
He gives and blefsed be his name
He takes but what he gave.
James M. Brown
Date of death: 1892		 DEAR FATHER,
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Nancy Brown
Date of death: 1851		 Dearest Mother, thou hast left me
And my loss (illegible)
But 'tis God that hath (illegible) me.
He can all my sorrows heal.
Rhoda Brown
Date of death: 1835		 In robes of Innocence and love,
Her virgin soul is dressed:
And all the angel hosts above
Rejoice to see her blest.
Sarah A. Brown
Date of death: 1906		 OUR MOTHER,
"IN PEACEFUL REST
ON THE BOSOM
OF GOD
AND ETERNAL LIFE"
Susan C. Brown
Date of death: 1890		 A GOOD DAUGHTER
A FAITHFUL WIFE
AND LOVING MOTHER.
Thomas Brown
Date of death: 1825		 The Lord doth know what road is beft
And how to lead to peace and rest
To Him I cheerful give my all
Go where He leads & wait His call.
John Burger
Date of death: 1819		 Who fell a victim to the fever
that prevail'd in the fall of 1819
in the City of new York;
after an illnefs of 4 days.
Gently be thy reft, dear Youth
Untill the Judgment day:
Then rife in Innocence & Truth
To Glory wing thy way.
Edward J. Burke
Date of death: 1942		 Rest thy work is done
Abby Burnet
Date of death: 1832		 Husband & Children, you I leave,
O do not mourn, O do not grieve,
But strive to gain the happy shore
Where we may meet to part no more.
Daniel Burnet
Date of death: 1854		 Blessed are the dead which
die in the Lord.
Hannah Burnet
Date of death: 1812		 My days are paft my work is done,
I've left a world of woe;
Reader your race you'll quickly run,
Then be prepared to go.
Susan W. Burnet
Date of death: 1851		 Sweet child adieu
Thy pain's all o'er
We'll soon meet you
to part not more
Aaron W. Burnett
Date of death: 1875		 He doeth all things well.
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Abbie A. Brant Burnett
Date of death: 1894		 "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"
Charlotte Mooney Burnett
Date of death: 1900		 Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord.
Daniel Burnett
Date of death: 1873		 THY WILL BE DONE.
Dorcas Burnett
Date of death: 1815		 Farewell dear friends, whofe tender care
Has long engag'd my love;
Your Fond embrace I now exchange
For better friends above.
John Burnett
Date of death: 1880		 AT REST
Phebe T. Burnett
Date of death: 1861		 AT REST
Anna Street Burnett
Date of death: 1905		 AT REST
Carrie E. Burnett
Date of death: 1926		 AT REST
Campbell
Date of death: unknown		 AT REST
Hannah Clark
Date of death: 1789		 In early bloom death me invades,
Tranflates my body to the fhades,
My glafs is run my grave you fee,
Prepare for death to follow me.
Isaac Clark
Date of death: 1816		 Farewell Dear Parents, you I leave:
Brothers & Sifters, you may grieve:
My dear Companions too may mourn
But, Oh alas! there's no return.
For now my God hath called me home
And unto duft I muft return:
Both young & old muft die you fee,
Therefore prepare to follow me.
Once I was young & gay like you:
Death fuddenly his arrow threw,
And ftruck me in my youthful bloom
And fent me early to my tomb.
John Clark
Date of death: 1825		 Look down upon this sacred spot and see
What death can do to you as well as me.
So let bosom friend your falling (illegible)
Children prepare, for God that calls on (illegible
And friend life must (illegible)
Prepare for Death in time for God doth (illegible)
Aaron Clark
Date of death: 1819		 Look down upon this sacred spot and see
What death can do to you as well as me.
So let bosom friend your falling (illegible)
Children prepare, for God that calls on (illegible
And friend life must (illegible)
Prepare for Death in time for God doth (illegible)
Aaron Cogswell
Date of death: 1815		 Within Death's awful gloomy fhade,
A loving Hufband here is laid,
A tender Father here is bound
Till the laft trumpet fhakes the ground:
No more for us will he provide
We truft he refts at Jefus' fide.
J. C. Mooney C Farms, cutter
Abby Conger
Date of death: 1816		 My Hufband kind, I leave behind,
My lofs to deplore,
My Children dear, I meet above,
Where we all fing Redeeming love.
Go home dear friends & fhed no tears,
I muft lie here 'till Chrift appears;
And at his coming, hope to have
A joyful rifing from the grave.
Samuel Conger
Date of death: 1819		 Ah, thou kind husband that here lies,
Enclosed in the tomb:
Far above these lower skies,
I trust thy soul hast found a home.
Why do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death's alarms,
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.
Electa Davis
Date of death: 1813		 She had many friends, was an affectionate
companion, a prudent mother, & a friend to
religion, & much lamented.
Why do we mourn departing friends,
Or fhake at death's alarms,
'Tis but the voice that Jefus fends,
To call them to his arms.
Joseph Davis
Date of death: 1830		 Blefsed are the dead that
die in the Lord.
Lydia Davis
Date of death: 1830		 There remaineth, therefore
a rest to the people of God.
Eleanor Arrowsmith Dayton
Date of death: 1888		 The Souls of the
Righteous
Are In the Hands
Of God
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James Wilson Dayton
Date of death: 1885		 Recuicscant in Pace
Clara Caitlin Dayton
Date of death: 1916		 Recuicscant in Pace
Frederick P. Doty
Date of death: 1861		 There is rest in Heaven.
Lilian Drake
Date of death: 1905		 LET NOT YOUR HEART
BE TROUBLED
Elizabeth Earl
Date of death: 1785		 She died in perfect
Refignation to the will of God
Margaret Earl
Date of death: 1824		 Friendfhip & tears of forrow could not fave
This once lov'd victim of an early grave:
In earth's cold manfion, with her babe fhe lies
Untill the trump of Judgment rends the fkies.
Robert Earl
Date of death: 1824		 Friendfhip & tears of forrow could not fave
This once lov'd victim of an early grave:
In earth's cold manfion, with her babe fhe lies
Untill the trump of Judgment rends the fkies.
Robert C. Earl
Date of death: 1848		 A Husband kind, a Father dear,
And faithful friend lies buried here.
Then peace, dear brother, to thy hidden dust;
A SAVIOR'S merits was thy only trust.
Reader in haste, seek CHRIST without delay
His cleansing blood will take your guilt away.
Thomas Gardner Earl
Date of death: 1876		 Quench not the spirit.
Edna A. Egler
Date of death: 1998		 IN LOVING MEMORY
Noah Ely
Date of death: 1752		 Sic Tranfit Gloria mundi
Margaret Faitout
Date of death: 1814		 Alas how chang'd that lovely flow'r
Which bloom'd & cheer'd my heart
Fair fleeting comfort of an hour
(the last line is broken off)
Oliver Faitout
Date of death: 1813		 Ere fin could blight, or forrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
Those opening buds, to Heav'n convey'd
And bade them blofsom there.
Jotham Faitout
Date of death: 1819		 Ere fin could blight, or forrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
Those opening buds, to Heav'n convey'd
And bade them blofsom there.
Aaron Faitout
Date of death: 1838		 What man is he who that liveth, and
shall not see death? Psalm 89:48
GOD, my Redeemer lives
And often from the skies
Looks down & watches all my dust
Till he shall bid it rise.
Clark Faitout
Date of death: 1881		 At Rest
Elizabeth R. Faitout
Date of death: 1828		 Ere fin could blight, or forrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
This op'ning bud to Heav'n convey'd
And bade it blofsom there.
Phebe O. Faitout
Date of death: 1823		 Husband & Children you I leave,
O do not mourn, O do not grieve,
But strive to gain the happy shore
Where we may meet to part no more.
Richard L. Fox
Date of death: 1868		 Dear Wife and Friends who live to mourn & weep
To see this grave wherein I sleep
Prepare for death for you must die
And be entom'd as well as I.
Mary Freeman
Date of death: 1827		 Husband & Father, you I leave:
My dear companion too may grieve:
Brothers & Sisters, you may mourn;
But, O alas! there's no return.
Once, I was young & gay, like you:
Death, suddenly, his arrow threw
And struck me in my youthful bloom,
And sent me, early, to my tomb.
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Charlotte French
Date of death: 1857		 "We all do fade as the flower."
Aaron Gardner
Date of death: 1822		 This stone is erected by the
widow in memory of her
affectionate husband.
While Death difsolves my earthly ties
And lays my husband low in dust
To thee, my GOD, I'll breath my sighs
And in thy promifes I'll trust.
Jane Gardner
Date of death: 1824		 O'er once lov'd forms now cold & dead;
The Mother cries "My hopes are fled":
But JESUS fpeaks to calm her fears:
"It's I! fond nature, ceafe thy tears."
Elizabeth Gardner
Date of death: 1825		 O'er once lov'd forms now cold & dead;
The Mother cries "My hopes are fled":
But JESUS fpeaks to calm her fears:
"It's I! fond nature, ceafe thy tears."
Mary Garthwait
Date of death: 1833		 The bosom friend the mother kind
Was call'd by heav'ns decree,
To leave her earthly friends behind
Till death shall set them free.
Meeker Garthwait
Date of death: 1817		 Farewell, farewell my friends,
I am going to Jesus my home,
I know I'm redeem'd by his blood.
For I feel the witness within;
Then why should you mourn or complain
Since Jesus has called me away,
You know he's aright to his own,
And I am resigned to his will.
Ethel Garthwait
Date of death: 1911		 I WANT TO SEE JESUS,
DON'T YOU
Hannah M. Goulder
Date of death: 1854		 Her sun is gone down
While it was yet day.
Maria T. Goulder
Date of death: 1857		 Blessed are the dead
Who die in the Lord.
Frazee Haines
Date of death: 1889		 AT REST
Phebe A. Haines
Date of death: 1893		 AT REST
Anna P. Haines
Date of death: 1894		 AT REST
Abigail Halsted
Date of death: 1823		 Precious, in the sight of the
LORD, is the death of His
saints.
Caleb Halsted
Date of death: 1827		 "And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth yea saith the spirit, that
they may rest from their labours and
their works do follow them."
Rev. 14:13
Caleb Stockton Halsted
Date of death: 1827		 "Boast not thyself of to-morrow for thou
knowest not what today may bring
forth." Prov. XXVIL.1
Joseph Lyon Halsted
Date of death: 1813		 Peace to this infant dust the spirits flow
To mingle joys with angels round the throne
of Jesus soon fhall bid it rise
in glorious form to meet him in the sky.
Phebe R. Halsted
Date of death: 1829		 From adverse blasts and lowering storms
Her favor'd soul he bore;
And with yon bright angelic forms,
She lives to die no more.
Sarah Harrison
Date of death: 1837		 Farewell dear Parents, friends adieu
My JESUS doth me call:
I leave you here with GOD, until
I meet you once for all.
Emma Harrison
Date of death: 1838		 Farewell dear Parents, friends adieu
My JESUS doth me call:
I leave you here with GOD, until
I meet you once for all.
Abiel Hays
Date of death: 1824		 Prepare, my friends, to follow me
Into a World unknown
Prepare to meet our GOD & me,
When Death, the summons come.
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Davis Headley
Date of death: 1832		 Laid in the dust, he must abide
Thus sleeping by his consort's side
Ye living children, come and see
Where both your once lov'd Parents be
Then follow in the path they trod,
Till you shall rest with CHRIST in GOD.
Hannah L. Headley
Date of death: 1842		 "Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of his saints."
Psalm cxvi.15
Jehanah Headley
Date of death: 1812		 Sweetly in Jefus now fhe fleeps,
Unmov'd; though the Survivor weeps;
Releaf'd from mortal cares and things,
The fpirit on celeftial wings,
Burft from its manfion here, and found
Immortal joys, on heav'nly ground.
Then ceafe ye mourners to complain,
Prepar'd by grace you'll meet again.
John T. Headley
Date of death: 1828		 Receive, O Earth his faded form
In thy cold bosom let it lie;
Safe let it rest from ev'ry ftorm
Soon must it rise no more to die.
Mary Ann Headley
Date of death: 1839		 Dear Husband, Child, and Parents too
Brothers & Sister all adieu
From death's embrace (illegible)
Therefore, prepare to follow me.
Mary C. Headley
Date of death: 1883		 At Rest
Raymond Headley
Date of death: 1895		 Thy will be done.
Samuel Headley
Date of death: 1932		 This humble mound conceals the dust of youth
This filent stone records his age and doom
That man, frail man, may learn this folemn truth
That his Eternal all's beyond the tomb.
Stephen Headley
Date of death: 1843		 "Surely he shall not be moved
forever: the righteous shall be
in everlasting remembrance."
Psalm cxii.6
Stewart Lyon Headley
Date of death: 1913		 ALL IS WELL
Elmer Higgins
Date of death: 1852		 Behold I come quickly.
James Higgins
Date of death: 1826		 Dear Wife and Children may deplore:
The Hufband, Father is no more:
No more his frugal hands provide:
We trust he refts at JESUS' side.
Now he in JESUS' arms doth fleep:
And he's in blifs forever more:
We'll dry our tears & ceafe to weep:
And hope to gain the happy fhore.
Sarah Edwards Higgins
Date of death: 1874		 May our mother's rest be ours.
Stephen Jagger
Date of death: 1849		 THE MEMORY OF THE
JUST IS BLEST.
family Jagger
Date of death: unknown		 A son through
filial duty
consecrates
this stone to
their memory.
Daniel Jaggers
Date of death: 1852		 Weep not for me my friends so dear
I am not dead but sleeping here
The debt is paid the grave you see
Prepare yourself to follow me.
Elizabeth Jaggers
Date of death: 1852		 She sleeps (illegible)
Her spirit (illegible)
No care, no pain nor grief
Can reach the peaceful immortality.
Caleb Jefferys
Date of death: 1860		 They Rest from their Labours.
Julia Jefferys
Date of death: 1860		 They Rest from their Labours.
Phebe Jennings
Date of death: 1838		 Dear widow'd Mother, you I leave
Brothers & kindred here to grieve;
An earthly friend, a child so dear,
Beneath this stone, lies buried here.
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Zebulon Jennings
Date of death: 1833		 Farewell my Friends, my Partner dear
No more I need your tender care:
My groans no more awake your ears-
My midnight sigh to rouse your fears.
Edith A. Johnson
Date of death: 1900		 our joy
Mary A. Johnson
Date of death: 1908		 BLESSED ARE THE
PURE IN HEART,
FOR THEY SHALL
SEE GOD
Nancy Johnson
Date of death: 1829		 Let friends no more my sufferings mourn,
Nor view my relics with concern.
O cease to drop the pitying tear
I've got beyond the reach of (broken off)
David M. Jones
Date of death: 1834		 Dear Wife & Children may deplore,
The Hufband, Father is no more:
No more his frugal hands provide:
We trust he rests at JESUS' side.
Ann Eliza Lyon
Date of death: 1828		 Sweet be thy sleep!
'tis silen't now,
And undisturb'd thy bed,
Nor sorrow's dream
beclouds thy brow,
Nor sin wakes pain'd:
emotion now, (illegible)
But holy quiet circles
round thy head.
Hannah Lyon
Date of death: 1853		 Prepare to meet thy God
Henry Lyon
Date of death: 1824		 Shall man be left abandon'd in the dust,
While fate, relenting, bids the flow'r revive?
Shall nature's voice, to man alone unjust,
Bid him, tho' doom'd to perish, hope to live?
Is it for this, fair virtue oft muft ftrive
With difappointment, penury, & pain?
No: Heaven's immortal fpring fhall yet revive,
And man's majeftic beauty bloom again.
Henry Lyon
Date of death: 1830		 Go sainteth spirit,
to thy home above;
Thy toils, thy cares,
thy sufferings, all are o'er;
Go bathe in seas of
everlasting love,
And rest thee on that
peaceful, happy shore.
Johanna Lyon
Date of death: 1857		 Not here but gone to be at
rest with her Saviour.
Mary Lyon
Date of death: 1822		 (broken off) departed this life
in the hope of a
blefsed immortality
While friends, her abfence ftill deplore
(broken off)-s for themselves, they weep:
though they behold her face no more
in peace, her afhes fleep:
(broken off)-d o'er the tomb, they lift their eyes
(broken off)-is not dead! Fhe could not die.
Grace Budd Bonnel Mason
Date of death: 1943		 Asleep in Jesus
John Maxwell
Date of death: 1828		 Dear friends who live to mourn & weep
Behold the grave in which I sleep;
Prepare for death for you must die,
And be entombed as well as I.
Nancy Maxwell
Date of death: 1848		 "Blessed are the dead
Who die in the Lord."
Peter Mead
Date of death: 1849		 I sometimes think his pleasant (illegible)
Still on me sweetly fall;
Tis tones of love I seem to hear
In sadness on me call.
I know that he is happy
With his angel plummage on
Still my heart is very desolate
To think that he is gone.
Esther Meeker
Date of death: 1860		 (First five lines broken off)
For thou wert tender (illegible) and (broken off)
And hast thou join'd our lovely child (broken off)
Among the blest to praise redeeming (broken off)
Oh pleasing thought to be (illegible) of this,
That I shall meet thee, in that world of blifs.
William J. Meeker
Date of death: 1855		 (First five lines broken off)
For thou wert tender (illegible) and (broken off)
And hast thou join'd our lovely child (broken off)
Among the blest to praise redeeming (broken off)
Oh pleasing thought to be (illegible) of this,
That I shall meet thee, in that world of blifs.
James Meeker
Date of death: 1777		 Why do we mourn departing friends
Or fhake at deaths alarms
Tis but the voice that Jefus
Sends
To call them to his arms.
Cut by J. Tucker
James Meeker
Date of death: 1813		 Our (illegible)
Death p'd the tender (illegible)
They had not time on earth to bloom
But Bloom in heavenly light.
Hannah Meeker
Date of death: unknown		 Our (illegible)
Death p'd the tender (illegible)
They had not time on earth to bloom
But Bloom in heavenly light.
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Rebecca B. Meeker
Date of death: 1807		 Dear Friends no more the streams of sorrow pour
But haste to join me on the heav'nly shore
On harps of gold to tune immortal lays
And to your God immortal anthems raise.
Charlotte French Miller
Date of death: 1906		 He giveth his beloved sleep.
Esther Miller
Date of death: 1829		 "There remaineth, therefore,
a rest to the people of God."
Hebrews IV.9
Martha B. Miller
Date of death: 1826		 A sad memento here you see,
That from Death's grasp no age is free
Here in this narrow, silent bed
The Mother & her babes are laid.
How short their stay! Their conflict's o'er
And have they reach'd fair Canaan's fhore
Blest thought! & O may all prepare
To leave this world & meet them there.
Joanna H. Miller
Date of death: 1821		 A sad memento here you see,
That from Death's grasp no age is free
Here in this narrow, silent bed
The Mother & her babes are laid.
How short their stay! Their conflict's o'er
And have they reach'd fair Canaan's fhore
Blest thought! & O may all prepare
To leave this world & meet them there.
Elizabeth H. Miller
Date of death: 1826		 A sad memento here you see,
That from Death's grasp no age is free
Here in this narrow, silent bed
The Mother & her babes are laid.
How short their stay! Their conflict's o'er
And have they reach'd fair Canaan's fhore
Blest thought! & O may all prepare
To leave this world & meet them there.
Phebe Crane Miller
Date of death: 1884		 AT REST
Silas Miller
Date of death: 1909		 AT REST
Abigail Mooney
Date of death: 1800		 This lovely babe
yong as fhe was,
has loft her breath
and gone to god.
Emma Jane Wade Mooney
Date of death: 1906		 SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD
Josephine Mooney
Date of death: 1839		 Ere fin could blight or forrow fade,
Death came with friendly care
This op'ning bud to Heav'n convey'd
And bade it blossom there.
Martha Mooney
Date of death: 1821		 Here lies the mortal remains of the amiable and pi
MARTHA
who departed this life in hopes of a glorious immo
She combined the virtues of an affection-
ate Daughter, a loving Wife, a tender Moth-
er and a sincere Friend:
Long may her virtues be cherished in re-
membrance.
Forgive, blest shade! The tributary tear,
That mourns thy exit from a world like this
Forgive the wish, that would have kept thee here
And stay'd thy progrefs to a Heav'n of blifs.
Nancy Mooney
Date of death: 1827		 (first five lines illegible)
For thou wert tender (illegible) and (broken off)
And hast thou joined our lovely child (broken off)
Among the blest to praise redeeming love
Oh pleasing thought to be afsured of this;
That I shall meet thee, in that world of blifs.
Sarah Beach Mooney
Date of death: 1827		 (first five lines illegible)
For thou wert tender (illegible) and (broken off)
And hast thou joined our lovely child (broken off)
Among the blest to praise redeeming love
Oh pleasing thought to be afsured of this;
That I shall meet thee, in that world of blifs.
Norris Mooney
Date of death: 1825		 "It is appointed unto men once to
die."
O man! Behold the race decay:
And cast a thought on ages gone:
Thy spirit, too, must wing its way
To worlds, far distant & unknown.
Efhter Mulford
Date of death: 1808		 Farewell dear friends
A blefsed fubject thou of heavenly grace
Thy life was upright and thy end was peace
Thy warfare's o'er and in a ripen'd age,
(broken off)aft thou concluded well thy pelgrimage
(broken off) come ye, her dear relations clad in g
(broken off)-he fmiles of Heaven afford you full r
Mary Norris
Date of death: 1788		 Remember me as thou pafs by
As thou art now, so once was I
As I am now, so you muft be
Prepare for Death & follow me.
Samuel Norris
Date of death: 1801		 My friends who live to mourn & weep
Behold the grave in which I sleep;
Prepare for death for you must die,
And be entombed as well as I.
John Nugent
Date of death: 1890		 At Rest
Elias Osborn
Date of death: 1807		 Lord, fince thou haft permitted Death
To fully ftop our Parent's breath,
Yet from repining may we keep,
Since he in Christ has fell afleep.
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Elizabeth Osborn
Date of death: 1815		 Infatiate Death! Nor tears, nor friends could save
This fated victim from an early grave;
Terrifick Archer, fwiftly flew thy dart,
And tore her from the Idols of her heart.
Henry Osborn
Date of death: 1835		 He was for many years ru-
ling Elder of the Presbyterian
Church, was exemplary as a
christian, & died in full hope
of a blessed immortality.
Mary Pierson
Date of death: 1855		 O that they un-
derstand this, that they would consider
their latter end.
Mary Ellen Post
Date of death: 1855		 Wife and Mother's Tomb
Willie Post
Date of death: unknown		 Wife and Mother's Tomb
Benjamin Potter
Date of death: 1822		 To this fad fhrine the relics we commend,
Of once the tender Father, Hufband, Friend:
Too soon alas! Those tender ties were broke;
Friends, Wife & Children felt the fatal ftroke.
Yet cease fond grief, no murm'ring figh arise,
GOD ftruck the blow, & He is juft and wise.
Emily Potter
Date of death: 1835		 Farewell I leave this world of woe,
Of sorrow sin and pain:
If I am wash'd, in Jesus blood
I shall a crown obtain.
Jotham Potter
Date of death: 1829		 Dear Children & my weeping friends
Who mourn around my tomb;
Prepare to meet me in that world
Where sorrows never come.
Mary Potter
Date of death: 1793		 Farewell, dear friend, a fhort farewell
Till we fhall meet again
In the (broken off) grave
And (broken off)
Rebecca Potter
Date of death: 1828		 Altho our loss appears so great,
And we lament our lonesome state,
We trust she reigns with Christ above,
Where saints all sing redeeming love.
Rhoda Potter
Date of death: 1822		 Blefsed, are the dead, who
die in the Lord.
John Roder
Date of death: 1813		 The parents wept, alas, adieu,
Upon this beauteous clod,
While up to heaven the feraph flew
To meet a fmiling God.
Elizabeth J. Roll
Date of death: 1884		 STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE
STRAIT GATE.
Luther Roll
Date of death: 1869		 THAT WHICH THOU SOWEST IS
NOT QUICKENED EXCEPT IT DIE.
Elizabeth Ruffell
Date of death: 1817		 In hopes of future blifs content I lie
Was pleaf'd to live yet not difpleaf'd to die
Life had its troubles & its pleafures too
(broken)nks to all-wife God for all is due.
Emma Florence Sayre
Date of death: 1906		 AT REST
Henrietta Tooker Sayre
Date of death: 1839		 AT REST
William Francis Sayre
Date of death: unknown		 AT REST
Charles Elmer Sayre
Date of death: unknown		 AT REST
Phebe Catharine Sayre
Date of death: 1851		 Parents farewell, Brothers adieu
Sisters no more I go with you.
To hear the word of truth
Seek wisdom now; live ever so
That when called you may gladly go
Though in the days of youth.
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Louise Schwanke
Date of death: 1892		 HIER RUHT (above her name)
(translates from German into English as "Here Rest
Ruhe sanft (under the dates)
(translates from German into English as "Rest In P
Sarah Scudder
Date of death: 1776		 The Wife moft kind,
A Parent dear,
The Chrisftians friend
Lies Buried here.
Sarah Kate Searing
Date of death: 1849		 (First two lines, illegible)
A fairy footstep from the hall
That must return no more.
Anny Shipman
Date of death: 1813		 Now done with all below the sun,
She shines before the Fathers throne:
Her race was swift, her rest is sweet,
Her views divine, her bliss complete.
Phebe Singleton
Date of death: 1798		 Dear friends who live to mourn & weep
To fee the Grave wherein I fleep
Prepare for death, for you must die
And be entom'd as well as I.
Alexander Smith
Date of death: 1834		 Here stranger, lies a Father dear,
In calm and peaceful rest:
His spirit freed from trials here,
Resides among the blest.
Lament to think,
Affections link,
Is severed thus in tu(broken off)
Yet why lament (broken off)
He died content,
And Heaven is his (broken off)
Anne Smith
Date of death: 1813		 Here, where this filent marble weeps,
A friend, a wife, a mother, fleeps.
Go home dear friends and fhed no tears
I muft lie here 'till Chrift appears,
And at his coming hope to have
A joyful rising from the grave.
Mary Smith
Date of death: 1835		 Well did she fill the charities of life,
As daughter, mother, sifter, friend, & wife:
On her, her Saviour's image was impress'd
And ev'ry chriftian virtue warm'd her breast.
Meek, humble, patient, ever kind,
To ev'ry varied providence resign'd:
With steadfast step the narrow path fhe trod,
Then drop'd her clay to see her Saviour God.
Caroline Mary Street
Date of death: 1837		 Who died in the peace
of hope of the gospel.
Edward Biddle Street
Date of death: 1839		 Who died in the peace
of hope of the gospel.
George Swan
Date of death: 1825		 Father & Mother Brothers Sisters mourn
Stop pitying ftranger, view this (illegible)
For soon like me you'll fleep beneath the ground
To wake no more until the trump fhall found.
Hur Thompfon
Date of death: 1787		 Your lofs, dear Parents is my gain
Believe thefe Words are true
Weep not for me, it's all in vain
God ftill provides for you.
Mofes Thompfon
Date of death: 1809		 The foul prepar'd neads not to fear,
The fummons come, the faints declare:
How quick the flight, how fhort the road,
He clos'd his eys and faw his God.
Thomas Thompfon
Date of death: 1802		 Long have I waited for my change
My God has heard my cry:
Where one doth live to fuch an age
There's thoufands younger die.
Henrietta Thompson
Date of death: 1824		 (Several lines are illegible.)
The female part of the congregation have
erected this MEMORIAL in the churchyard
of one they loved with the hope that the
(illegible) and chidren may (illegible)
(Several other lines are illegible.)
Ida Tilton
Date of death: 1869		 "For the Lord will not cast off his
people, neither will he forsake
his inheritance."
Absent from the body,
present with the Lord.
Electa Townley
Date of death: 1815		 Sleep on dear babe & take your reft:
GOD call'd thee home: He tho't it beft.
Elizabeth Townley
Date of death: 1821		 Farewell my friends, who mourn & weep
Over the grave, wherein I fleep:
Prepare for Death! For you muft die
And be entomb'd as well as I.
Hannah Townley
Date of death: 1827		 This monument is erected by the
affectionate Brothers and Sisters
of the deceas'd.
Here lies entombed a patient one of David's chosen
She left the clay with pure delight
To see her Saviour's face.
Afflictions sore long time she bore
Physicians aid were vain:
Till her blessed God removed the (illegible)
And eas'd her of the pain.
Jane Townley
Date of death: 1815		 How fweet fhe fhone in focial life,
As Daughter, Sifter, Friend & Wife;
Her race was fwift, her reft is fweet,
Her views divine, her blifs complete,
This, this alone her husband (broken)
And Joy wipes off the briney tears.
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Mofes Townley
Date of death: 1824		 Ye pleasing scenes, adieu!
Which I so long have known
My friends, a long farewell to you
For I must pass alone.
And tho, beloved clay,
Long partners of my cares
In this rough path are torn away
With agony and tears.
Phebe Townley
Date of death: 1834		 Farewell dear friends don't mourn for me,
For Jesus wills it so to be:
I hope in heaven we all may meet
To worship at Emmanuels feet.
Attend the solemn call to day,
Remember this to Watch and pray:
To morrow it may be too late,
For Death may end your mortal state.
Sarah Townley
Date of death: 1838		 When this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought
to pass that which is written, "Death is
swallowed up in victory." 1st Cor. xv. 54
Mary Van dyne
Date of death: 1846		 Her body refts beneath this clod,
From pain and toil set free:
Her spirit thou hast claim'd, O God
We trust it dwells with thee.
Polly Vannefs
Date of death: 1813		 Dear friends, who live to mourn & weep
To fee the grave wherein I fleep
Prepare for death for you muft die
And be entom'd as well as I.
David Wade
Date of death: 1779		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Rhoda Wade
Date of death: 1819		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Henry Wade
Date of death: 1782		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Noah Wade
Date of death: 1804		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Rhoda Wade
Date of death: 1791		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Susan Wade
Date of death: 1794		 Blest friends thou art from our region fled,
And left thy bodys here amongst the dead.
Angelic guards around thee did convey
Where thou, with angels join'd forever sing
Eternal praises to the Almighty King.
Elizabeth Burnett Wade
Date of death: 1900		 RESTING IN JESUS
James M. Wade
Date of death: 1885		 HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP.
Jonas Wade
Date of death: 1819		 In all the relations of Husband,
Parent, Citizen, and Friend he
was kind, affectionate, faithful
and justly lived beloved and
died lamented.
Margaret Wade
Date of death: 1791		 How Lov'd, how Valu'd once, avails Thee not
To whom Related, or by whom Begot
A heep of Duft alone remains of Thee
Tis all THOU art! all ye PROUD fhall be.
Mose Wade
Date of death: 1824		 Protect, O earth, his faded form:
In thy cold bosom, let it lie:
Safe let it rest from ev'ry storm:
Soon may it rise, no more to die.
Phebe Wade
Date of death: 1820		 See here! A youth, in all her flow'r and prime
snatched from fond life and all the joys of time.
Young friends & parents, let this instance show
that there is nought, to cleave to her below.
I once was young (illegible) had health,
Like some of you disease & death
as swift as lightning flew,
and siez'd my body in my youthful bloom
and dragged me to the cold & silent tomb!
J. C. Mooney, cutter
Rachel Wade
Date of death: 1825		 My Husband, Child & Friends I leave:
O do not mourn your lofs nor grieve;
But ftrive to gain the happy fhore,
Where we may meet to part no more.
Robert Wade
Date of death: 1805		 His benevolence to the poor, his
liberality in fupporting the Gos-
pel, his services to his Country
have endear'd his memory and
raised him a monument more
lasting than stone.
Watch thoughtful on the silent solemn shore
of the vast ocean you must sail to so soon
Put faith & works on bord & wait the wind
that shortly blows you into worlds untried.
J. Hand Osborn, cutter
Thompson Wade
Date of death: 1854		 The memory of the just is
blessed
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Benjamin Watkins
Date of death: 1807		 The year rolls round and fteels away,
The breath that firft it gave,
whate'er we do where'er we be
we're trav'lling to the grave.
Walter G. Welch
Date of death: 1813		 Sleep dear child in Jefus' arms:
And we will ever ceafe to mourn:
Since thou art fafe from all alarms;
We never will wifh thy return.
Now he in Jefus' arms doth fleep,
And he's in blifs forever more;
We'll dry our tears & ceafe to weep,
And hope to gain the happy fhore.
JC Mooney C Farms, cutter
Hannah West
Date of death: 1821		 This
tribute
of
respect is erected
by Aaron Shipman fen
to the memory of
Hannah
Her long life, was active & ufeful
She was refpected & belov'd, &
died in the hope of the Chriftian.
Reader, prepare for thine eternal ftate;
Time yet is thine, but foon it is too late.
Ann Elizabeth Williams
Date of death: 1838		 Swiftly pass a few fleeting years,
And all that now in bodies live;
Shall quit, like me, this vale of tears
Their righteous sentence to receive.
Nancy Williams
Date of death: 1828		 Husband & Children, Parents too,
Brothers & Sisters, all adieu:
From Death's embrace, no mortal's free
O look to CHRIST and follow me.
As you are now, so once was I
In health and strength, tho' here I lie:
And as I am, so must you be;
Therefore prepare to follow me.
Phebe O. Williams
Date of death: 1831		 Stop passing stranger, drop a tear
A wife, mother, and friend (illegible)
She's bid adieu to all that's done
Beneath the (illegible) of the sun.
Caleb Winans
Date of death: 1855		 Pass a few swiftly fleeting years
And all that now in bodies live
Shall quit, like me, the vale of fear
Their righteous sentence to receive.
Elizabeth Mooney Winans
Date of death: 1869		 (first line, illegible)
Thy memory (illegible)
Is still to us the light and love
Thy children cherish here.
They rest from their labours
And their works do follow them.
Jofhua Winans
Date of death: 1805		 Low in the ground keen forrow cries
The hufband friend and father lies;
High in the heavens bright hope rejoins
The Chriftian there in glory fhines.
Nancy Winans
Date of death: 1825		 She died in JESUS bl(illegible) dead:
For so the Holy Spirit faid,
And refts upon that shore.
Where fhe beholds her Saviour God,
And triumphs in atoning blood:
Then weeps for her no more.
Sarah Winans
Date of death: 1822		 The unremitting path she trod,
That leads to happinefs & GOD:
Her feventy years had run their race,
Ere fhe was call'd to Heaven's embrace:
The joyful fpirit left the clay
Untill the refurrection day:
And here, the precious treafure lies
Till GOD fhall call it to the fkies.
Benjamin Woodruff
Date of death: 1822		 Tho death desolves our earthly ties
And brings our Parents down to duft
To the our God we'll lift our eyes,
And in thy pardning grace we'll truft.
Betsey Woodruff
Date of death: 1814		 Husband, and child, Farewell I'm bound
To Heav'nly Canaan's happy ground:
I leave you with a God of love,
And hope to meet you both above.
Go home dear friends! wipe off your tears
I must lie here till Christ appears:
And then-Oh! then I hope to have
A joyfull rising from the grave.
Sleep on, dear wife in the cold grave,
Till the last trump shall sound:
Then from thy God thou shalt receive
A never fading crown.
Till the last hour of life her lofs I'll mourn,
My tears of sorrow o'er her grave I'll shed;
And may I yet on angels wings be born
To live with her, when risen from the dead.
Elizabeth Woodruff
Date of death: 1918		 AT REST
Ezekiel B. Woodruff
Date of death: 1895		 GONE HOME
Frederick Woodruff
Date of death: 1927		 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Ichabod Woodruff
Date of death: 1809		 Reader, pass by, ne'er waste your time
On bad biography, or bitter rhyme,
For What I am, this cumbrous clay insures:
And what I was, is no affair of yours.
Josiah Woodruff
Date of death: 1826		 Once, I was young & gay like you:
Death, suddenly his arrow threw
And struck me in my youthful bloom,
And sent me early to my tomb.
Josiah Woodruff
Date of death: 1836		 Lord, since thou hast permitted Death,
To fully stop our Parent's breath;
Yet from repining may we keep,
Since he in CHRIST has fell asleep.
Lois Woodruff
Date of death: 1828		 She left this world: her toils are o'er
(broken off) all sorrow grief & pain
(broken off) she will return no more
(broken off) fhall meet with her again.
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Moses Woodruff
Date of death: 1810		 Parental fondnefs cou(broken off)
Those lovely children (broken off)
Then seek the Savior, c(broken off)
Prepare to meet them in the (broken off)
Moses B. Woodruff
Date of death: 1820		 Parental fondnefs cou(broken off)
Those lovely children (broken off)
Then seek the Savior, c(broken off)
Prepare to meet them in the (broken off)
Polly Woodruff
Date of death: 1825		 (broken off)ed grave, my Hufband de(broken off)
(broken off)have seen me laid:
(broken off)Companion, Children
(broken off) round this fhade.
Farewell my Mother and my Friends,
To JESUS I have gone:
Prepare to follow me, all, then
Into a world unknown.
Sleep on my dear Companion, fleep
Till JESUS CHRIST fhall come
To (illegible) from this mortal fleep
To (illegible) Eternal home.
Richard D. Woodruff
Date of death: 1878		 The memory of the just is blessed.
Sarah A. Woodruff
Date of death: 1904		 Gone but not forgotten.
Asleep in Jesus.
Sarah J. Woodruff
Date of death: unknown		 Gone but not forgotten

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