Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850 / With the Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds

by Franklin P. Rice

A parent Tender Soft & kind;

The natural product of hir mind.

[On footstone: 1777 Mrs. Eunice Bancraft.]

22. In Memory of
Mr.
Franklin Bancroft,
who died Oct. 4, 1839,
aged 34 years.

Thou art dear little spot, oh to me thou art dear

For the ashes your bosom contains.

Though no willow is planted to shed the soft tear

And to droop o'er my husband's remains.

Though no parian marble encercles the spot,

Though no ivy is wreathed o'er the tomb;