Mary wife of Benjamin Cooley died June 16,1799 in the 74th year of her age
"Molly" may have been a name family used, this is not confirmed in documentation.
Mary wife of Benjamin Cooley died June 16,1799 in the 74th year of her age
"Molly" may have been a name family used, this is not confirmed in documentation.
Inscription
Mary relics [sic] of
Benjamin Cooley
died June 16th 1799
in the 74th year
of her
age.
Virtue lives beyond the grave.
My transent seans [sic] are ove[r]
heaven is my native air,
I bid my friendes [sic] a short adue [sic]
Impatient to be their [sic].
[The engraver was not a good speller or grammarian]
On the day Mary died she was 73 years old, and
Ætatis suæ (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of her Age) 74.
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