Friends and physicians could not save
My mortal Body from the Grave
Nor can the Grave confine me here
When Christ the son of God appears
The westerly side of the hill abounds in curious inscriptions, and among them we note the following:—
Here lies Interrd
The Body of Ms
SARAH SPOONER
who deceased
January
Ye 25th AD 1767
In ye 72d year of
her age. She was
widow to ☞
(The hand points to the next stone, which marks the grave of her husband.)
Sacred to the memory of Phebe J. Bramhall, A native of Virginia & wife of Benjn Bramhall Jun who died August 27, 1817, aged 21 years.
Possess’d of an amiable disposition, She endeared herself to
all around her
“but”
Weep not for her in her Spring time she flew
To that land, where the wings of the soul are unfurl’d
And now, like a star beyond evening’s cold dew
Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world.