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EPITAPHS. 475 Ann Caroline, of John and Lois Kelley, was drowned 1839, age 4 years: " Fair was the flower and soft the vernal sky Elate with hope we deemed no danger nigh; When, lo, a whirlwind's instantaneous gust, Laid all its beauties withering in the dust, also five of their sons." OUR MOTHER. LYDIA GRANT, d. Oct. 5, 1S71, aged 71 years. " She made home happy." Daniel V. Kinnicutt, Jr. d. 1791, age 21 : " Hope smiles upon his brow, but Hast ye fate thurst her dread shears between, Cuts the Young Life off and Shuts up the scene ; We seed his flesh sink down with weeping eyes, While we with grief cry out, He dies. He dies." Capt. Samuel R. Martin, d. 1840, age 58, thus addresses "My children dear, this place draw near A father's grave to see ; Not long ago I was with you And soon you'll be with me." John Kelley, 1797 : "But oh what worlds shall I survey, The moment that I leave this clay: How sudden the surprise, how new. Let it my God be happy too."' Nathaniel Martin, 1806, aged 83 : " In him was lost the affectionate husband and the valued citizen, but faith promised by a temporal loss to introduce an eternal gain." BRAVE AND TRUE. '■'■ Dulce et decorum est pro f atria mori" is the inscription on the tombstone of John Bourne Mathew- son, who died in the War of the Rebellion, 1862, at Fort Lyon, Va.