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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

EPITAPHS - Elias Ayers Plot


ELIAS AYRES  – A NATIVE OF NEW JERSEY, DIED JANUARY 5, 1842, AGED 50 YEARS.  “BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD.”

MARY ANN LAPSLEY – FORMERLY MARY ANN AYRES, DIED JUNE 2, 1878, AGED 82 YEARS.  “I WILL LAY ME DOWN IN PEACE AND SLEEP. – PSALM 3.8”

MARIA C. AYRES – DAUGHTER OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED MARCH 30, 1837, AGED 20 MONTHS.  “IT IS THE LORD JEHOVAH’S HAND THAT BLASTS OUR JOYS IN DEATH.”

CORNELIA A. AYRES – DAUGHTER OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED JULY 18, 1834, AGED 16 MONTHS.  “THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN.  BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.”

HENRY A. AYRES – THIRD SON OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED AGUSUT 23, 1830, AGED 20 MONTHS.  “HE FLEETH ALSO AS A SHADOW, AND CONTINUETH NOT.”

CAROLINE H. AYRES – DAUGHTER OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED AUGUST 8, 1829, AGED 3 YEARS.  “SHE CAME FORTH AS A FLOWER, AND WAS CUT DOWN.”

CAROLINE S. AYRES – THIRD DAUGHTER OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED JULY 23, 1834, AGED 4 YEARS.  “SO FADES THE LOVELY BLOOMING FLOWER, FRAIL, SMILING SOLACE OF AN HOUR.”

WILLIAM S. AYRES – OLDEST SON OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED OCTOBER 25, 1829, AGED 8 YEARS.  “HE WAS A PRECIOUS GIFT, IN HIS YOUTH HE SOUGHT THE LORD GOD OF HIS FATHERS, AND IS NOT FOR GOD TOOK HIM.”

EDWARD E. AYRES – SON OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED DECEMBER 17, 1839, AGED 15 YEARS.  “LET ME GO FOR THE DAY BREAKETH.” 

MARY B. AYRES – DAUGHTER OF ELIAS & MARY ANN AYRES, DIED JULY 17, 1839, AGED 19 YEARS.  “HER LIFE WAS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD, AND WHEN HE WHO IS HER LIFE SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL SHE APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY.”

REV. ROBERT A. LAPSLEY, D.D. – DIED FEBRUARY 13, 1872, AGED 74 YEARS.  “HIS WORKS DO FOLLOW HIM.”

MAJOR WILLIAM SILLIMAN – DIED OCTOBER 6, 1816, AGED 60 YEARS  “HIS FLESH RESTS IN HOPE”

PHEBE SILLIMAN – WIFE OF MAJOR WILLIAM SILLIMAN, DIED OCTOBER 13, 1816, AGED 54 YEARS.  “THEY WERE LOVELY IN THEIR LIVES, AND IN THEIR DEATH WERE NOT DIVIDED.”

MRS. CATHARINE HILLYER – DIED FEBRUARY 23 1836, AGED 35 YEARS.  “HER DEATH WAS PEACE.”

CATHARINE S. MOODEY – DAUGHTER OF JAS. & CATHARINE S. HILLYER, BORN OCT. 26, 1827, MARRIED TO JAS. C. MOODEY, SEP. 10, 1844, DIED APR. 25, 1850.  “SHE HAS JOINED HER MOTHER”

JAMES C. MOODY – BORN JULY 4, 1816, IN SHIPPENSBURGH, PA., DIED IN ST. LOUIS JAN. 6, 1880, AGED 63 YEARS 6 MO’S. & 2 DAYS.

OUR BABES – CATHARINE & WILLY MOODEY – “IN HEAVEN”

L. M. HAWLEY – CONSORT OF F. THURSTON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 6TH, 1842, AGED 29 YEARS.