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EAST WAREHAM.
Erected by the creditors of a bachelor Irishman.
Hibernia's son himself exiled, Without an inmate, wife or child, He lived alone.
And when he died, his purse, though small, Contained enough to pay us all, And buy this stone.
Rebecca Nourse Yarmouth Eng 1621 Salem Ma.s.s 1692
Accused of witchcraft she declared "I am innocent and G.o.d will clear my innocency." Once acquitted yet falsely condemned she suffered death July 19th, 1692.
O Christian Martyr who for truth could die, When all about thee owned the hideous lie The world redeemed from superst.i.tion's sway, Is breathing freer for thy sake to-day.
CONNECTICUT.
NEW HAVEN.
Composed by the deceased.
Partridge Thacher.
Rest here, my body, till the Archangel's voice more sonorous far than nine fold thunder, wakes the sleeping dead; then rise to thy just sphere and be my house immortal.
On a babe four days old.
Since I so very soon was done for I wonder what I was begun for.
Here lies the body of Obadiah Wilkinson And Ruth, his wife.
Their warfare is accomplished.
Franklin White.
Here lies Frank a s.h.i.+ning light Whose name, life, actions all were white.
Reader pa.s.s on. Don't waste your time On bad biography and bitter rhyme.
For what I am this crumbling clay a.s.sures, And what I was is no affair of yours.
G.o.d works a wonder now and then, He though a lawyer was an honest man.
Dr. Somerby.
At length a grave spots for him provided, Where all through him so many of us died did.
Early, bright, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exalted and went to heaven.
NORFOLK.
Lieut. Nathan Davis.
Died in 1781.
Death is a debt that's justly due, That I have paid and so must you.
Elizabeth, wife of Nathan Davis.
Died 1786.
This debt I owe is justly due, And I am come to sleep with you.
NEW YORK.
SKANEATELES.
Underneath this pile of stones Lie's all thats left of Sally Jones.
Her name was Lord it was not Jones.
But Jones was used to ryme with stones.
Mary Drummond Smith.
Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Smith 'Till neath the sod it laid her.
She was a worthy Methodist And served as a crusader.
WYOMING COUNTY.
She was in health at 11.30 A. M.
And left for Heaven at 3.30 P. M.
