In the 2004, Sylvia Pettem wrote in the Colorado Magazine Online, " In 1879, far from her native Cornwall, 33 year-old Mary Webster died and was buried in a small wooded cemetery near the town. Someone, perhaps her husband Joseph, engraved her stone with the above epitaph. The verse reflects more than her life alone, it reaches out to us to remember a life and time that is gone forever."
More on Mary Webster, https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/07/28/boulder-history-cornish-lives-remembered-on-caribous-150th-anniversary/
More on Mary Webster, https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/07/28/boulder-history-cornish-lives-remembered-on-caribous-150th-anniversary/
In the 2004, Sylvia Pettem wrote in the Colorado Magazine Online, " In 1879, far from her native Cornwall, 33 year-old Mary Webster died and was buried in a small wooded cemetery near the town. Someone, perhaps her husband Joseph, engraved her stone with the above epitaph. The verse reflects more than her life alone, it reaches out to us to remember a life and time that is gone forever."
More on Mary Webster, https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/07/28/boulder-history-cornish-lives-remembered-on-caribous-150th-anniversary/
More on Mary Webster, https://www.dailycamera.com/2019/07/28/boulder-history-cornish-lives-remembered-on-caribous-150th-anniversary/
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Remember Friends, as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now so must you be.
Prepare for Death, and follow me.
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Photo taken in 1968.
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