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_Achwyd, Elizabeth
Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth Ackwyd
Native of Farnley Gyas* (?)
England
Who departed this life
May 25th 1843
Aged 26 y_s 4m_s & 26 d_s
Her languishing head is at rest,
It_s
thinking & aching are o_er
Her quiet immovable breast
Is heaved by affliction no more.
Her heart is no longer the seat
Of trouble and torturing pain
It ceased to flutter and beat
It never shall flutter again
* in the Parish of
Almondsbury Yorkshire England_
_Gould, William
In memory of William Gould
Who died October 2d 1838
Aged 34 years 5 months 28d_s
`also
Sarah
His wife who died
October 2 1838
Aged 35 years 2 months 24 d_s
Also
Charles
Their son, who died
October 3d 1838
Aged 4 years 4 days
Natives of the town of North‑molton,
England
Poisoned by eating fungi [toadstools]
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord_
_Ogden, Wilmot
To the memory of Wilmot Ogden
Only Daughter of Capt _Bing_ Ogden
Who departed this life October 4
1790 in the 22d year of her age
Her disconsolate father has erected this monument_
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Rogers, Benjamin
In memory of Benjamin Rogers
Who departed this Life
November 8th 1813
Aged 63 years 9 months
And 8 days
Saints die and we should gently weep;
Sweetly in Jesus arms they sleep
Far from this world of sin and woe;
No sin nor pain nor grief they know._
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Happy Souls thy days are ended
All thy mourning days below
Go by angel guards attended
To the sight of Jesus go
Sam B Murren
Mar 20‑/56‑77‑‑
End all the pains that here I bore
Can spirit any future fears
For death & hell can do more
Than what my Father please.
The sweet remembrance of the past
Shall flourish when he sleeps ??
Aug./43
Elizabeth Pane_
_Here lies the Body
Of Elizabeth Duman who
Departed this life July 4th 1770 in the 63 year of
her age
Hoping her Souls is at Rest
With the Celestial Train_
In Joy and Happiness
Where Blessed Souls Remain_
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_Of him oh may in death be said
He speaketh well although he_s dead
His life was faith, his death was must
That God would raise him with the just
John Tilbert (?) Nov. 10 1764 Apr. 6 1843_
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_Death to all
Here Called from Labor to Reform
A weary mason resting lies
Till the last awful trumpet blows
And bids each human atom Rise
Thus shall the suns Of faith and light
Whose sign Is faith Whose tokens love
Receive the sound Then wing their flight
To join the Lodge of Saints above
Wm Allger died Apr. 13 1792 44 years
Parrott, James Bracett
near those dear to him the sensible
Warm motin of
James Bracrett Parrott
Born
Nov. 26 ‑ 1817
Chilled by death
Jany 29th 1890
Hue thaws and resolves itself bark to
earth the common mother of mankind."
Memory of Sarah McRiby,
daughter of William McRiby, wife to
Birdsey Watkins.
Who departed this life Oct 1, 1800 aged
31 years 9 months 6 days.
"Weep not for me my dear Birdseye
My soul is risen to Christ on high
Rejoice, believe thy soul and save
My body rests now in the grave
My bodys mouldering in the dust
My souls rejoicing with the just.
Angels and saints all join the throng
The song of Moses and the lamb."