Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant
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who perished in the catastrophe of the steamer Pulaski, of whom it is
recorded, that during the whole time that she was in the service of her mistress, which was many years, she never committed a theft, nor uttered a falsehood. A brick monument, in the shape of a little tomb, with a marble slab inserted in front, has this inscription: "In memory of Henrietta Gatlin, the infant stranger, born in East Florida, aged 1 year 3 months." A graveyard is hardly the place to be merry in, but I could not help smiling at some of the inscriptions. A fair upright marble slab commemorates the death of York Fleming, a cooper, who was killed by the explosion of a powder-magazine, while tightening the hoops of a keg of powder. It closes with this curious sentence: "This stone was erected by the members of the Axe Company, Coopers and Committee of the 2nd African Church of Savannah for the purpose of having a Herse for benevolent purposes, of which he was the first sexton." A poor fellow, who went to the other world by water, has a wooden slab to mark his grave, inscribed with these words: "Sacred to the memory of Robert Spencer who came to his Death by A Boat, July 9th, 1840, aged 21 years. Reader as you am now so once I And as I am now so Mus you be Shortly. Amen." |
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