g to the saints,
To sinners rich and poor,
He was a kind and worthy man,
He's gone to be no more.
He kept the faith unto the end
And left the world in peace.
He did not for a doctor send
Nor for a hireling priest.
Mrs. Josiah Haines.
Here beneath these marble stones
Sleeps the dust and rests the bones
Of one who lived a Christian life
T'was Haines's--Josiah's wife.
She was a woman full of truth
And feared God from early youth.
And priests and elders did her fight
Because she brought her deeds to light.
PEMBROKE.
Here lies a man never beat by a plan,
Straight was his aim and sure of his game,
Never was a lover but invented a revolver.
JAFFREY.
A free negro, Amos Fortune, settled in Jaffrey more than one hundred
years ago, though warned off as a possible pauper, and left one quaint
bit of history--his estate, to the town. Part of it bought the communion
service still in use (1895.) On the gravestone of his wife is this
inscription:--
Sacred to the memory of Violate, by purchase the Slave of Amos Fortune,
by marriage his wife, by fidelity his companion and solace, and by his
death his widow.
VERMONT.
Our little Jacob has been taken away to bloom in a superior flower pot
above.
My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep.
This little buttercup was bound to join the heavenly choir.
BURLINGTON.
Beneath this stone our baby lays
He neither crys or hollers.
He lived just one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars.
Charity wife of Gideon Bligh
Underneath this stone doth lie
Naught was she e'er known to do
That her husband told her to.
Here lies the wife of brother Thomas,
Whom tyrant death has torn from us,
Her husband never shed a tear,
Until his wife was buried here.
And then he made a fearful rout,
For fear she might find her way out.
He first departed, she a little tried to live without him. Liked it not
and died.
His illness lay not in one part
But o'er his frame it spread.
The fatal disease was in his heart
And water in his head.
In memory of Elizabeth Taylor.
Could blooming years and modesty and all thats pleasing to the eye,
Against grim death been a defence,
Elizabeth had not gone h
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