I might have skipped over this marker if Mike hadn’t called my attention to it.
Etched on three sides, it is a monument to a beloved wife and child by a bereaved man, Samuel Perry.
This stone is erected by the pious affections of the surviving husband and parent, Samuel Perry.
Based on the phrasing of the inscription, it seems that Mary Wallace Perry died in childbirth with the couple’s daughter.
To the memory of Mary Wallace Perry & her infant daughter, who were removed from time to Eternity, August 22, 1812, the former in the 26th year of her age, the latter in the moment of birth.
The final panel, the hardest to photograph due to the proximity of other monuments, reads:
If an assemblage of those amiable and endearing qualities that render a female the ornament of her sex could have warded off the arrows of death, she had not died.
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