Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
birth: 22 August 1803 PROVINCETOWN,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS
father: Simeon Conant
mother: Susanna
Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
birth: 22 August 1803 PROVINCETOWN,BARNSTABLE,MASSACHUSETTS
father: Simeon Conant
mother: Susanna
Inscription
Wife of Isaac Paine
age 31 years
Inscription is an excerpt from the poem "Life is a span, a fleeting hour" by Anne Steele (1716-1778) which appeared in her 1783 book Verses on Life, and was set to music and sung as a hymn.
"Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, when what we now deplore shall rise, in full immortal prime, and bloom to fade no more."
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