Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-16
5MOHG THE TOMBS.
some Epitapbs From the Graveyard
al Emmanuel Church.


Ia the days to come when dancing
attendance ss a witness or juror at the old
New Castle court house Will be for all
thing of the past, many will yet cherish
Us breuks ia the monotony of the memory
the recollection Of stroll, during the
noon recess, among the tonlbs that nearly
crowd each other in the graveyard attached
to the Immanuel Episcopal Church For
nearly two centuries this old church has
stood and it bids fair TO stand for centuries
10 come, while within the radius traversed
by the shadow of its steeple have been
laid to rest several generations who
worshiptd within its walls
Ia bis "HstOry of Delaware" under
dale Of 1868, Francis Vincent says that
the D1tch Governor, Jacob Alricks, "pur-
chased and enlarged a building 10 be used
for e church, also house for tue minister.
This il the frat mention made of any
building used solely for religious purposes
in tls State. ia a foot note be says:
This vas undoubtedly the commence
ment Of Emanuel Church at New Castle"
Schiller, the gifted poet Of the Father
iaud, in recouutiug tue death of Talbot,
says;
Scin Gr4beschrif rel der Ort wo mau hn findet;
into Euglish,
II i "piIaph shall be the place he fell on.
Even 20 it might he said of the primi-
tive pastors of this church. Affixed to
the northern wall are three weather. worn
tablets ! he Oldest Of these once bore
,be maine of probably the first watcher
over the little illck that then gathered
here. SOale of the letters of tue name
are not now decipterahle, out the careful
reader eau make out tuost cf the ipscrlp-
tiou which records that the old pastor
did of fsver and dyseutery, on Septem
Der 3Oth, 1907
The next tablet commentaries, in the
Latin OF the day the virtues Of Johanna,
wife OF The Rev George Ross. The iu-
scription is as follows.
Memor virtue Johanna Coujugs,
hohcslO g"ncle nae hoe Srpulcri
mOuumcnum MarIus GrOIgius Ross
EyNntp'Il y PluCO cXirucndun CurAYit
Annu acqueyllilia A ais trigesimO
seglmu ~ Sept lI2i.
Dixii cJr5ns-qusquis vivit ct
tTr, m me- mon iuOrlenlnr in trcrnnm.
Caicania sclnr via lrchi.
The third tablet records the death of the
Rev Waiter Hacket, ut the comparatively
early age OF 33 The Inscription reads:
Snh hoc cipp1 couduu,ur rcliqnp
Reverend l'ri tilHtr lIicE,I qni
vrtulu Missionary insiguitus Purtoritium
Nunns aPud Apuluiuunrn sn- C!rcilrr
q 1iHVUpnulun rrnCilcr cXrrCuit
NIli- frhsmhurgi u HuuU scotia
PruNlrra rN NclU-tu sc gUnernsu HcicC
fumila onus
Fuit viva iurOrrulnn ingcno cni Peliore
ticiD in uftl 10 fan endU suuImn luhu-tria
Mn Ms ilc hunis tiebds edit
Null u 'hliiur guam CnuiM cuuiugi
tili IN Mem ram dgnl Nlr
iIurrr Muuumeutum srparrale
tuudurt lthult
Obii' Nout~ NHriis AunO MDOCXNXIu
<Eiatis NANllI
The "Apoqnnomrn" referred to seems
TO have been tine old @ lessa "Nlnre1ts
History" says that Augustine He aian,
about the Nenr iubl, ''wls Instrumental iu
constructing ratt road between ths Ioho-
mia iiver, In Mtryisl d and the Appo,
luiuimrk creek, in n CASTLE county.
lhe making Of this road caused the build
lag Uf u village on tho Appuquinimink
creek, called Appoquoneme Iuis village
wss th= ancestor Of the present thriving
town of 0itgs9, formerly kuown as Cant,
wells Bridge. O Oiassa Is, therefore, the
n'yt town ia our STATE in antiquity after
Wilmington, New Cas.ia anu iAwistown
Close by tile church il. he tomb Of JoEu
Curtis, whose eP.nPh, as sppsars from
ehe tomb itself, was composed by the
printer pnilosopa'r OF whnse career every
Ameriosn il iastiy proud. Here is the
epitaph