, 1877-10-07


| tc the uncultyafed people of that day, were
undoubtcdly .things Of beauty" placed there
ir the humble hope that they might remain " q
GOV forever" The Inscriptions are in The
. QUAINT pHRASEoLOGY
and olG-fashioned lettering Of that day. ihe
Jccease Of scion OF the house Of Penn is THUS
recorded.
ian especially nideous cherub.i
Here lies We body or
Joseph Of William
& Eltzrh Penn Deceased
3ac'ry 18th 1868 aged years
9 and 26 la
The careless stouecutter as will he seen, har-
ins- omitted letter "e" from the word y de-
ceased" has cut the missing letter over the al.
breyiated word leaving the reader to insert IL
cut off in its infancy, was an aopcndagG to the
family of the famous William Pcnu, Of Pennsy-
vania, is not recorded. The following s'lscfp-
tion is over the grave Of another infant, whose
tonary cbcrub Evidently this omission was
no, made on the score Of economy, for the price
Of a cherub certainly could not have exceeded
that Of cutting the lines appended:
Here lycs yo body OF
INEVITABLE l1yLroS who
! Departed this life Septr. =. 11G1
Aged = years.
Sleep Lovely Babe l. Take Thy
Peace full lies,. God Cad incc
Early Because He fought 1t Best
To atone for the omission OF an &c" IN
called and all 'th' u III ''thuught " the anlbi-
tious sculptor scattered his capital letters
manner. Had lie taken 4 little more pains with
his orthography and been trle less profusc
with his capitals, his efforts would >have been
more commcndaplc. The following amusing
| sentence appears on the TOMBSTONE Of ''Johil,
son OF Arthur & Mary Daley, died 21st octr.
1871, aged months ~
0! happy probationer
Accepted. without being Exercised.
ssMary Wragg, daughter Of James and Eliz'th
Wragg,'' died on the 29th OF October l159, in
honor Of which successful exploit some kind
| friend has sculpturcd over her -unresisting re-
mains the following sentence, which, for false
spelling. bad arrangement. and assertion which
tie writer had 10 means OF verifying can scarcely
be excelled even by Trinity tonlbstones:
Her Days Whear short as is Winters Sun,
from Dust she came to Heaven return.
A curly-haired chcrub, fearfully and wonder
fully made, keeps guard over s'ye body ot
..John Norton, merchant from Iortolnh, one
of the Virgin Islands, who died Fcu'y !, 1176,
a-ctl 26 years. Tney must have made "mer-
chants ~ out Ut very youthful timber IN those
oldeu DAYS. At the present time the young
man who has gotten through his cierksiip anu
can honestly write "mcrchant" over his name
at 10 has done remarkably Well The last re-
NUNS Of
MANY BRITISH OFFICERS
Of the army, navy, aud mcrchant'serElce repose
in the churchyard OF old Trinity, as witness tue
1ollOWlQE3 G0llaLcA 4lotIl aa!!oAo AAoAuuASA@9-
Here lyeth &c body Of
Andre Mills.
purser Of His Majcsty's ship Greyhound.
Here s,x 'ss Hs,se, ys e9ay Ssfs. of
Purscr Of His MajeE1y'a ship Deal Castle.
John Hawkins. ESQ.,,
Commissary and Quartertnaster Of the
Royal Artillery
John Foxcraft, Esq
Late Agent Of His Majestys Packets.
Peter Ireland.
Sergeant Major Royal Regiment Of Artillery
Air.. Withaluus de Nance was so anxious to
be regarded by postcrity as one OF Natures
craven in rather scaly Latin on his now scalieI
tombstone, in words to the effect that the said
Nance wus
Maths me die May, 1920
~Ex natre sui patris nobillssime.
While the names of Smith, Jones, and Rob-
ipson were not unknown i'll those days, we meet
most frequently with those Of more patrician
sound. Along the west side are located
tile vaults Of the ancestors of many OF
the " first families "a Of New York Of the pres
ent day,-the Livngstoncs, Lawrcnces, Ogdens,
Desbrosses, Lispenarls, AlcxaDders, Cort-
landts, Griggs, and many others, Prominent
among these vaults is that Of John Rogers, but
there is no sculpturcd chronicle OF his having
even the slightest. mention OF his "uine chill
dren and one at the breast" SO that the old
conundrum us to whether his infant family con-
sisted OF ten OF only nine members remains un-
answered. One modest stone bears across its
face The efIieies OF no less than four OF the in-
evitable cherubs before referred to. The stone
is iu memory OF "four boys: sons OF Samuel
and Agnes l'inglcy,'' who 'died in their infan-
rate likcnesscs Of the hapless babes. it is on the
whole, 3 merciful thing Tor posterity that
the bankruptcies early welded up their
hideous physical organizations. Perhaps the
most curious, and certainly one OF the most
ancient, Inscriptions in the ch11rchyard Is found
on Il crumbling stone on the Church street side
of the yard, and would never be seen by the
mere Broadway lounger. The following are the
words, set down literally as to orthosraphy, cap
ftalization, and arrangement:
In memory Of
OBADIAH HUNT.
from Birmingham in Warwick Shier, with his wife
Susannah from Greeley, in Hearttozd Shier in Old
insiand.
With *undry children and grandchildren who de-
parted this life Oct ::e, l76o aged 81 years. and
was at ye fosnttins q ths church in se srar 1855
and named Trinity Church.
1DlosYScRAsIEs OF OLD MAKBLE-CUTTERs.
From what has already been said, it will be
seen that the men who, in the old time, cut let
tcrs or the monuments, must have been not on-
" illiterate,-a fact which is abundaDtly shown
by their bad spelling and absurd use OF canital
Icttcrs,-but as mechanics they were exceedingly
carclcss, not taking, in many cases, the most
ordinary care 10 preserve the proper length Of
The lines or an average size for the letters Fer
haps the most fragrant instance Of this sort OF
miscalcula.on, or rather lack Of all calculation,
is to be found on stone which now reposes on
the north end Of the inclosure, directly under
! tile shadow OF that towering commercial pile
known as the s*Trinity Buildings" Where
many are bad, this is uuquestionably the worst.
We give this curious bit Of writing exactly it
appeays On the stone: