other here,
And I buried yonder.
Julia King.
I go to meet my brother.
John Dale
and his two wives.
A period's come to all their toilsome lives,
The good man's quiet--still are both his wives.
GREENWOOD.
Grieve not for me my Harriet dear
For I am better off,
You know what were my sufferings
And what a dreadful cough.
David Stuart
A loving father and companion,
Follow me as I have--Jesus.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Underneath this stone doeth lie
As much virtue as could die;
Which when alive did vigor give
To as much of beauty as could live.
Amos Judge
(Coal dealer.)
He gave full weight to all t'is said
And did it without vaunting;
When in the ballance he is weighed
He will not be found wanting.
William Newhall.
He 'rose in health at early dawn
To hail the new born year:
Before the evening shade came on
He finished his career.
He was a man of invention great
Above all who he lived nigh;
But he could not invent to live
When God called him to die.
A thousand ways cut short our days,
None are exempt from death.
A honey-bee by stinging me
Did stop my mortal breath.
He got a fish bone in his throat
And then he sang an angel's note.
Here lies a kind and loving wife,
A tender nursing mother;
A neighbor free from brawl and strife,
A pattern for all others.
To the memory of
Susan Mum.
Silence is wisdom.
This corpse
is
Phebe Thorps.
Neal Keven.
His accounts were found square to a cent.
A Watch-maker's Epitaph
Copied from a tomb-stone in Wales by old Sexton Brown, the once famous
sexton of Grace Church, N. Y.
Here lies in a horizontal position the outside case of George Rutlege
watch-maker, whose abilities in that line were an honor to his
profession.
Integrity was the main-spring of all the actions of his life. Humane,
honest and industrious his hands never stopped until they had relieved
distress.
He had the art of disposing of his time in such a way that he never went
wrong except when set agoing by persons who did not know his key, and
even then was easily set right again.
He departed this life wound up in the hope of being taken in hand by his
Maker, thoroughly cleaned,
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