amiable qualities, the joy of
her Parents, the delight of
her connexions, and
beloved of all, if youth,
if virtue deserve a tear,
reader, drop it here,
when the engraving of this stone
informs you that she left
her weeping friends in the
23d year of her Age, June 22 1783
Old 91-Corridor stock; her great-nephew became friendly with Emily Dickinson, he would take her on his knee in converse while courting her sister. Her stone was cut from Connecticut's coarse silicate tissue and imaged by a carver there before being brought out to salty Maine. Within a few years the inscribed text will fall away; a light tap would do it now.
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