New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-22

quence who for a little while acted as president
OF Princeton College:
This stone erect as a monumental token Of
ioye and gratitude 10 oar late f"Ii9r the ksy s,
81 Sne da this tomb TO f Ga not F To lie
Indud by Nature with superior parts
To Soar a 10 ntismr red. Win sacred love-
To- know. admire and serve The doi above.
The smiles Of virtue and thc gospels charms.
4 faithful Waterman, 'tullous 10 dlseharse
To sa ,.. he whole ana sound his Highest fainc.
He lived Chlstian and he ala the same.
man so useful from his People rent,
His babes the Coleg. ard the church lament.
The foregoing composition is craven on the
slab that covers a rectangular tomb about two
and half feet high The material used IN
building IT brownstonc Of harder
riety than that employed in marking most Of the
graves around. Many Of the headstones have
been Clipped of by the action OF the elements
on the red sandstone. which is peculiarly suscep-
tible to this process Of dislntegration. and from
some of them the inscriptions are missing \
characteristic Of Mr.. Smiths tomb. which Is
reproduced nearly all Of the other monu-
ments, is seen In the forms Of two impossible,
or, at any rate. highly improbable. angels
carved at the top the upper slab. as II T.
keep watch over the precious reliques' be-
meath IT, The grave next to that Of Mr.. Smith
Is occupied by the dust Of his wife Martha who
died five years before him. She honored
by the erection OF a headstone and a footstone.
one telling when she was born and the other
when she died This poor woman. though the
wife OF one OF the most respected men In the
colony, seems to have had hard time OF IT,
for on her footstone they wrote:
The poor Remains OF wasting pain
Beneath this mournfu stone Found
Yet shall In Beauty rise again
At the Last Trumpets solemn sound
The Oldest marked grave in the place is that
Of Anthony Olef whose rudely carved tomb
stone says that he departed this life March
the 16 in the year 1923, aged 81 yeare" The
name as 1t Is cut on the stone looks like Olive
instead Of Olef. Nathaniel Wheeler who il be-
lieved to have given the cemetery to the people
died three years later There must be earlier
graves than these in Orange. but they are not
marked. 1t is probable that before 1923 the
dead were buried in their own land.
Going only a few years we come to the
grave of Hannah. wife of Joseph Jones, whose
sufferings appear to have been acute or her
II Is said:
Short her Life
Much more her Pain
Short her Life
MUCH more balhc.
In a mood Of especial inspiration the obituary
poet composed the following amentation fer
Richard Ward. who died at the age Of fourteen:
STAY here while, this stone demands thy tears
our sorrow now, but late our joy and praise
Dropped in the mild Aurora OF His Days.
William Moor was twelve years older than the
Ward boy when this sententious observation was
made over his grave:
Here Ives a blooming Youth
lie lived In love and died in truth
Mr.. Moor's wife survived him sixty-two wears
Yet when she finally followed him, her relatives
could think OF nothing more appropriate to say
than. Reader. thou. too must die"
For persons who died leaving no friends with
sufficient invention to prepare original epitaphs
there were certain stock verses which were con-
sidered safe and conservative and Appropriate
to all sorts and conditions Of men. or these mono
often rcsorted TO as:
Friends, all behold as you pass by
As you are now sc once was !.
As am now soon you must be.
Prepare for death and follow me
In cases Of infants and small children the fol-
| lowing couplet had considerable vogue:
Weep not for me. my parents dear
am gone TO rest you need not fear.
Decidedly the most elaborate memorial I'm the
cemetery Is that which stands over the last
resting place OF the wife of a military officer
probably veteran Of the Revolution. 1t Is one
Of those rare specimens which speak for them
selves, and to which comment or criticism
would be superfiuous:
This stone 10 Erected Token OF Conjugai AZ
| lection to the memory OF Mrs Lydia Jones lafe
comfort of Capt. Zebulon Jones. who drptd this
transitory life ye 18th OF April A. d., 1882 In the
32d year OF Her age.
Who refuse the tributary sigh
Mhen dear domestic female virtues die?
Weep maidens here the ndulgent mistress dead
Ye plaintive poor your kind BELIEVER fled
Ye Husbands. Matrons. Children come and mourn
The fondest wife and Mother In her Urn.
Friends. kindred. Neghbors, all yr grief express
And sympathetic share in Jones deep distress
pair Of gentle lives which began and ended
together, are thus concentrated:
sacred TO the memory OF David and iona thar
Brown. twin brothers. who departed this life April