He fell asleep in Christ
July 1, 1834.
A good man, a wise counsellor,
A sound preacher, a faithful pastor,
He rests from his labors, and his works follow him.
In memory of Chloe Blawis
Wife of Peter Blawis, who
died June 24th, 1822
Aged 30 years, 9 months, 11 days.
God my redeemer lives
And often from the skies
Looks down and watches all my dust
Till he shall bid it rise.
In memory of Rodney Buel
Who died June 11, 1834, in the 34th year of his age.
Friends nor physicians
could not save
My mortal body from the grave,
Nor can the grave confine me here
When Christ my Saviour shall appear.
In memory of Caroline,
Daughter of Col. Walter and Alida DeRidder
who died March 24, 1838
aged 15 years and 6 months
O happy dead in Thee that
sleep,
While o'er their mouldering dust we weep,
O faithful Saviour who shall come
That dust to ransom from the tomb.
Phebe Dyer
Died Oct. 3, 1849
aged 57 years, 3 months and 21 days.
We leave thee here till
Christ shall come
The sleep of death to break
Then may'st leave the silent tomb
And in His likeness wake.
Elizabeth, daughter of Card
Kenyon
Died March 8, 1840, in her 25th year.
Disconsolate tenant of clay
In solemn assurance arise
Thy treasures of sorrow survey
And look through it all to the skies.
That heavenly house is prepared
For all, who, though sufferers here
Do wait the return of their Lord
And long for His day to appear.
Content E., wife of A.I.
Loomis
Died Feb. 2, 1846
Aged 28 years, 6 months and
27 days.
My flesh shall rest in
hope.
John Martin
Died July 13, 1850,
Age 83 years 10 mo. And 27 days.
Thou art gone to the grave
with a moments reflection,
but Jesus a moment can hear,
Thou hast left me to mourn with sincere affection,
to wander alone till Christ shall appear.
In memory of Elijah Norton
who died Dec. 10, 1841
in the 83rd year of his age.
We rest a season here, but
not forever.
Mary Osburn
died June 25, 1849
in the 26th year of her age.
Hope looks beyond the
bounds of time,
When what we now deplore,
Shall rise in full immortal prime
And bloom to fade no more.
In memory of Gen. Solomon
Place
who died Dec. 22, 1834 in
the 66th.
Let worms devour my wasting
flesh
And crumble all my bones to dust
My God shall raise my frame anew
At the
revival of the just.
Lucy, wife of John
Remington
Died March 6, 1836
in the 33rd year of her age.
My flesh shall slumber in
the ground
Till the last trumpets joyful sound.
Then burst the chain with sweet surprise
in my Saviour's image rise.
Died in New York Jan. 11,
1849,
Caroline B. White,
wife of William Henry, aged
60 years.
She sleeps in Jesus.
The epitaph that Benjamin Franklin wrote for himself while still a
young man is worth quoting:
The body
Of
Benjamin Franklin
Printer
(Like the cover of an old book
Its contents torn out
And stripped of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be lost
For it will (as he believed) appear once more
In a new and more elegant edition
Revised and corrected
by
The Author.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?
Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1Thes. 2:19
