CF Cemetery Inscriptions and Epitaphs

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.

Undetermined Date of death: unknown	How short the [illegible] of human things How transfient are the Joys. The Flow'r that in the Morning springs The Evening blast destroys.
Undetermined Date of death: unknown	They Rest from their Labours.
Undetermined Date of death: 1862	Behold I come quickly.
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.
Peter Attridge Date of death: 1840	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.
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 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.
Esther Baldwin 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.
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 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.
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. JC Mooney [cutter]
Sarah Beach Date of death: 1790	Ufeful fhe was in Life: Happy in her Death.
Aaron Bonnel Date of death: 1795	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 Bonnel 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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Joseph Bonnel Date of death: 1747	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 Unmoued 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.
Susan Budd VerValen Bonnel Date of death: 1929	Till we meet again.
William H Bonnel 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 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.
illegible Burger Date of death: unknown	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.
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.
Aaron W Burnett Date of death: 1925	He doeth all things well.
Abbie A. Brant Burnett Date of death: 1894	UNTIL THE DAY BREAK
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.
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John Burnett Date of death: 1880	AT REST
Phebe 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
family stone no names 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.
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.
Charity Ann Burd Converse Date of death: 1958	I AM IN MY FATHER'S HANDS
Charles S Converse Date of death: 1903	I AM IN MY FATHER'S HANDS
John Cooper Date of death: 1753	One Eye on Death & t'other Fix'd on Heaven Becomes a mortal & immortal Man.
Maria Bowerson Courter Date of death: 1853	AT REST
Ann Crane Date of death: 1805	Beneath this monumental stone remains The mortal part once rack'd with nature's pains: But while in ruin lies this humble clay The immortal soul exults in heavenly day It burst earth's prison left this darksome night We trust to heaven it took a glorious flight: And when the judgment trump shall rend the skies This dust trimphant o'er the grave shall rise.
David Crane Date of death: 1791	If e'er you knew a fellow mortals woe Sure as this tomb the tear of fympahty will flow A blooming Youth he's here beneath this ftone. His parents hope & joy an only Son. Vain Man is born to die how great this truth! No mortal is exempt [illegible] nor youth.
Elias Crane Date of death: 1869	Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Esther Crane Date of death: 1811	Stop gentle reader shed a mournful tear. And think on me who now lies sleeping here For in the bloom of youth I was cut down And from my friends and Loving parents gone.
Esther Maxwell Crane Date of death: 1880	Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints
Martha Crane Date of death: 1802	Here let my body reft in peace: My precious foul hath took its flight Unto that God who gave me life: Where all is joy and all delight My friends prepare to follow me And Jefus Chrift will fet you free.
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Obadiah Crane Date of death: 1833	Tis but a few whose day amount To three score years and ten: And all beyond that short account Is sorrow toil and pain. Then teach us LORD how frail is man And kindly lengthen out our span Till a wise care of piety Fit of to die and dwell with thee.
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.
Eleanor Arrowsmith Dayton Date of death: 1853	The Souls of the Righteous Are In the Hands Of God
James Wilson Dayton Date of death: 1885	Recuicscant in Pace
Frederick P Doty Date of death: unknown	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 [illegible] 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 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.
Edna A Egler Date of death: 1998	IN LOVING MEMORY
Noah Ely Date of death: 1752	Sic Tranfit Gloria mundi
Aaron Faitoute Date of death: 1828	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.
Oliver Faitoute 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 Faitoute 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.
Clark Faitoute Date of death: 1881	At Rest
Elizabeth R Faitoute 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 blossom there.
Margaret Faitoute 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]
Phebe O Faitoute 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 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.
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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.
Charlotte French Date of death: unknown	We all do fade as the flower.
Aaron Gardner Date of death: 1822	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	[broken off] once lov'd forms now cold & dead [broken off] Mother cries "My hopes are fled": [broken off] JESUS fpeaks to calm her fears: [broken off]! fond nature ceafe thy tears.
Elizabeth Gardner Date of death: 1825	[broken off] once lov'd forms now cold & dead [broken off] Mother cries "My hopes are fled": [broken off] JESUS fpeaks to calm her fears: [broken off]! 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 Garthwaite Date of death: 1911	I WANT TO SEE JESUS DON'T YOU
Anna P Haines Date of death: unknown	AT REST
Halsted Date of death: unknown	Peace to this infant dust the spirits flow[broken To mingle joys with angels round the throne- [broken off]us soon fhall bid it rest [broken off] to meet him in the sky.
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. XXVIL1
Phebe R Halsted Date of death: 1829	From adverse blasts and lowering stone Her favor'd soul he bore And with you 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.
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.
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.
Hannah Headley Date of death: 1842	Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalm cxvi.15
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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.
Raymond Headley Date of death: 1895	Thy will be done.
Samuel Headley Date of death: 1832	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
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.
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.
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
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: 1790	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.
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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 [illegible] friends her abfence ftill deplore [broken off] for themselves they weep: [broken off]ugh they behold her face no more [broken off] peace her afhes fleep: [broken off] o'er the tomb they lift their eye [broken off]s not dead! fhe could not die.
Grace Budd Mason Date of death: 1943	Asleep in Jesus
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
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 [broken off]t 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 [broken off]t 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 [broken off]t 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 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 A 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.
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.
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.
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 gr [broken off]e fmiles of Heaven afford you full rel
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 [illegible] 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.
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 [illegible] its troubles & its pleafures too [illegible]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 I [illegible] others 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.
Louise Schwanke Date of death: 1892	HIER RUHT [above her name] [translates from German into English as "Here" "Re RUHE SANFI [under the dates] [translates from German into English as "Rest" "In
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Sarah Scudder Date of death: 1776	The Wife moft kind A Parent dear The Chrisftians friend Lies Buried here.
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 impres'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.
George Swan Date of death: 1825	Father & Mother Brothers Sisters mourn Stop pitying ftranger view this [illegible] [illegible] like me you'll fleep beneath the groun untill 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 Thompson Date of death: 1802	[broken off] I waited for my change [broken off] God has heard my cry: [broken off]ere one doth live to fuch an age [broken off]e's thoufands younger die.
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: unknown	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.
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 [illegible] And Joy wipes off the [illegible] tears.
Phebe Townley Date of death: unknown	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 Vandyne 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.
family Wade Date of death: unknown	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.
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.
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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 E. Price [cutter]
James M Wade Date of death: 1885	HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP.
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 [illegible] THOU art! all ye PROUD fhall be.
Moses 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.
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.
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.
Williams Date of death: unknown	Stop passing stranger [illegible] A wife mother and friend She's bid adieu to all that's done Beneath the [illegible] of the sun.
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.
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.
Joshua Winans Date of death: unknown	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.
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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 H Woodruff Date of death: 1918	AT REST
Ezekiel B Woodruff Date of death: 1895	GONE HOME
Frederick W Woodruff Date of death: 1927	GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Icabod 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.
Jofiah 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.
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.
Sarah A Woodruff Date of death: 1904	Gone but not forgotten. Asleep in Jesus.
Sarah J Woodruff Date of death: 1909	Gone but not forgotten

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