The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-19

and practiced his profession until within a
s ort period of that event.
His remains were inferred in that beautiful
depository for the dead, the Mount Hope
Cemetery, being placed in the grave by the
tender hands of brethren i'll the profession
His resting-place is noted by a stone
OF whit So marble: truthful words are those
Inscribed thereon. The scene of his repoSe
Belts his liie--twas beautiful and Calm
In ineekness and in love he Went his way,
upfightly walking-fliing up the day
With useful deeds lie often poured the balm
or healing into wounded breasts; nor sought
The praise Of men in doing goea.n
This massive slab resting ON a foundation
from the bottom of the grave to the surface },
laid in the Moravian style, is very neat ana
appropriate. 1t bears this inscription
JAMES HERvEY sruDDrFoRD, NJ. D.,
A Ruling Elder
In the Presbyterian Church
OF I.ambertville,
Born Sept. 18th, 1882,
Died March Esd, 1870.
"We have on the west, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, extending our whole length,
being separated from us by the Delaware
river. From thence we received, occasionally,
medical assistance of Doctor Joseph Watson,
who lived in Buckingham, and Of Doctor
Hugh Meredith, who lived in Doylestown,
who together with Doctor Jonathan ngham
of Solebury, practced before and after the
revolution, the latter up to 1913, wien the
yellow fever being in Philadelphia, Doctor
lngham went there to test what he supposed
to be an antidote for the disease 1t failed,
he took the disease, came home, and having
great faith in the hygienic influence of noun
tain air, started for Schooley's mountain i'll
his carriage, attended by his wife and faith
full slave. They reached nearly to Hunts
Mills now called Clinton, when owing to his
failing condition. they stopped in a grove of
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buried in the burying- ground of the Bethle-
hem Presbyterian Church, near where he died,
by his wife and trusty servant. The people
in the vicinity were terribly alarmed and
scarcely any help could be had. A coffin was
spoken for before he was quite dead, but such
was the haste and terror on the occasion,
that they did not wait for the coffin, but
buried him with his Clothes bed and bedding,
and made good their retreat homeward. 1t is
said that the reason the coffin was not there in
time, was that it was ordered to be pitched
inside, by which it would appear they intend-
ed to take the remains home.
1t has been reported that they were refused
the privilege of burying in the graveyard.
| This is not So The old graveyard was en-
closed in a post and rail fence, standing inside
of the line OF the graveyard. AT the time of
Doctor highlands death, they were building
the present stone wall around the graveyard,
and at the place the Doctors grave was dug,
the wall was unfinished and the wagon con-
tanning the remains was backed up TO this UNI
finished wall and the grave being close to it,
he was buried as before stated.
The masons and other werkmen were so
alarmed that they Immediately quit work on the
wall and would not resume again until colder
weather, when the wall was finished. The
foot of the grave is within five feet Of the wall,
the wall is on the east of the grave, and the
road east of that, and no doubt was selected on
account of its availability and convenience, on
this sorrowful occasion, and not from any
disposition in the people to hinder his being
buried in the grave-y yard. He was buried in it.
Some years afterward his son, the Honor
able Samuel d. Ingham, Secretary of State
under General Jackson, placed stone at the