Late of Plas Newydd in this Parish.
_Deceased_ 2_nd June_, 1829,
Aged 90 Years.
_Daughter of the Sixteenth_, _Sister of the Seventeenth_
_EARLS OF ORMONDE AND OSSORY_.
Aunt to the late, and to the present
MARQUESS OF ORMONDE.
_Endeared to her friends by an almost unequalled excellence of
heart_, _and by manners worthy of her illustrious birth_, _the
admiration and delight of a very numerous acquaintance from a
brilliant vivacity of mind undiminished to the latest period of a
prolonged existence_. _Her amiable condescension & benevolence
secured the grateful attachment of those by whom they had been so
long and so extensively experienced_. _Her various perfections
crowned by the most pious and cheerful submission to the Divine
Will_, _can only be appreciated_, _where it is humbly believed_,
_they are_ now _enjoying their Eternal Reward_, _and by her of whom
for more than fifty years_, _they constituted that happiness_, _which
through our Blessed Redeemer_, _she trusts will be renewed_ when THIS
TOMB _shall have closed over its latest tenant_.
"Sorrow not as others who have no hope."
1 _Thess._ _Chap._ 4. _v._ 13.
SARAH PONSONBY
departed this Life
on the 9th December, 1831, Aged 76.
_She did not long survive her beloved Companion LADY ELEANOR BUTLER_,
_with whom she had lived in this valley for more than half a century
of uninterrupted friendship_. "_But they shall no more return to
their House_, _neither shall their place know them any more_."
_Job_, _Chap._ 7. _v._ 10.
_Reader pause for a moment and reflect not on the uncertainty of
human life but upon the certainty of its termination_, _and take
comfort from the assurance that_ "_As it is appointed unto men once
to die_, _but after this the judgment_: _so Christ was once offered
to bear the sins of many_; _and unto them that look for Him_, _shall
He appear the second time without sin unto salvation_." _Heb._
_Chap._ 9. _v._ 27, 28.
On the same tombstone is also the following inscription, to the memory of
a faithful servant, who accompanied "th
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