Prepare to live prepare to die
Prepare for long Eternity.
James Jordan. Drowned in Smelt Pond, June 25, 1837, aged 27 y’rs.
Buried on the day he was to have been married.
Near this is a stone which is sometimes called the “Masonic stone.” It bears the name of Nathaniel Jackson, and the date 1743. Above the lettering the sculptor has engraved a death’s-head, a tomb, an hourglass, cross-bones, an urn, a rose-tree, and the figure of a skeleton seated on a globe.
Departed this Life
June 23, 1796,
In the 90th year of her Age
Madam Priscilla Hobart
Relict
of the Revd Noah Hobart
late of Fairfield in Connecticut
her third husband
her first and Second
were
John Watson Esq
and
Honble Isaac Lothrop.