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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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