The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-19

'''.,...,.....,,...,.... ,.'..''''''''. J. D., Esq,
 Deceased March ye 18th, in ye sgd year of his age' 16SS-9.
 '''''''''. .'...,s.,.s.s '.'''''''''''s A less obscure inscription over his grave at that time might have sub Jected it to dissertation. But in 1S49 costly modern monument was erected near the original stone by his descend- ants, copiously inscribed with the fam fly crest and motto, and extolling his virtues as tribute of respect to his memory and as "a grateful record or the generous greeting extended to him by the early inhabitants of New Eng land."
 Lying in a coffin dug out of log in the old West cemetery at 1itchfleld, are the bones of Farmer Joseph Harris,o s,one Of the early settlers of the town, who was shot by the Indians while at his work afield. l believe that this was Litchfield's single fatality locally, re- ceived at the hands of the Indians. modern marble monument tells the story at length in this verse:
 
 Tn Memory of
 Joseph Harris, who was murder /. ed by the Indians in the year 1721. While blowing in his Field in the :. vicinity of the Almshouse he was.
 shot by the Indians. He was.
 found dead. Sittingon the ground
 his head and body reclining against the trunk of a tree.
 The record of the first Death
 amcng the original settlers of the
 Town and to perpetuate the
 memory of a worthy but unfor-
 tunate citizen this monument is
 erected 1880 by the voluntary
 benefactions of individual sub-
 scribers. .''.''' ''.'. ''.'r.'''' ..s.'......-.
 Just across the Connecticut line in the state of Rhode Island, near Westerly, is the tombstone of woman whose un- doubtedly busy life is indicated by the three marriages inscribed on her tomb stone, thus:
 I ....'...-..,. ....,,..,.............. In Memory of Mrs. Anna Alberson, | wife of MT David Alberson, first
 wife of MT. Robert Scott, and l second wife of MT. Peter Alexan- l der, who died May 19, 1872 Father, I give my spirit up
 Ard trust it in thy hand, | My dying flesh shall rest in hope And rise at thy command.
 There is in Union cemetery, North Stonington, stone inscribed Uncle Ethan" and containing these lines:
 He was not fool but wise He is not dead but sleepeth. ........... .....,....... .............
 Uncle Ethan" was a peculiar man ] who would never work for more than 50 cents per diem, and yet when he died he left an estate worth $2,000 to a niece who had befriended him in his last ill-ess. His brothers, who had cast him out when he was sick, went to the supreme court and tried to break the will, but the judge ruled that man who could save $2,000 on an income of 50 cents "a day, had sense enough to bastow his property where he saw fit The niece subsequently, erected the stone to the dead mans memory, and it is thought to be the only one in this state where the epitaph upon 1t em- bodies a superior court decision.
 Upon the monument of Fitz Greene Halleck, the poet in Alderbrook ceme- tery, Guilford, the inscription accom- panying his name is very appropriately taken from the closing lines of his well remembered Marco BoZarris:
 
 One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
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 Tn shattered corner of a remotely situated little burial plot in North Branford, on an old standstone, cover- ed with moss is this brief epitaph: John Morse.
 Aged IS.
 Oh, he was a good boy, |. If e'er a good boy lived