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

157. In
memory of
Thomas Rice, son
of M^r. Peter &
M^rs. Mary Rice,
who died Sep^t. 10
1796 in y^e 4 y^r.
of his Age.

Parents for me do not weep,

I am not lost but here do sleep

On a cold bed of lifeless clay;

Until the resurrection day.

[Inscriptions on the Rice Monument:]

Base: RICE

Front:

158-159. In Memory of
Dea. Jonathan Rice,
Died
May 3, 1834,
Æ. 70.
Mary S. his wife
Died
Feb. 19, 1848,
Æ. 81.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."