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Rev. Archibald
Burgess.
Who died Aug 25
1841 AE 40

She is not dead but liveth
She died but for others good
Died but to gain eternal life
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Erected
in memory of Lieut.
John Cumings

Come stop my friends and
look at one
Who once was in ye world with them
But now lies moldren in ye dust
In hopes to dwell among ye just

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(to a young wife who died age 25)

Hast thou thy youthful vigor 
an eye
That beams delight, a heart
untaught to sigh.
Yet fear, for many a tomb exclaims aloud
Prepare thee for an early shroud