Abigail, newborn daughter of Samuel & Elisabeth Woodruff, lies beneath a dual gravestone with another of the couple's babies, a brother named Samuel, who was born a decade later and died at the age of eight months in 1747. The little siblings' inscriptions (see below) appear side by side, above a single epitaph:
"Sleep lovely Babes Since God has call'd thee hence
Let us submit to his wise Providence"
The tympanum of their brown sandstone stele features tulips, instead of soul effigies typical of the colonial era, and like the ornately carved floral borders, represents the brevity of life.
GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, August 1991.
"Sleep lovely Babes Since God has call'd thee hence
Let us submit to his wise Providence"
The tympanum of their brown sandstone stele features tulips, instead of soul effigies typical of the colonial era, and like the ornately carved floral borders, represents the brevity of life.
GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, August 1991.
Abigail, newborn daughter of Samuel & Elisabeth Woodruff, lies beneath a dual gravestone with another of the couple's babies, a brother named Samuel, who was born a decade later and died at the age of eight months in 1747. The little siblings' inscriptions (see below) appear side by side, above a single epitaph:
"Sleep lovely Babes Since God has call'd thee hence
Let us submit to his wise Providence"
The tympanum of their brown sandstone stele features tulips, instead of soul effigies typical of the colonial era, and like the ornately carved floral borders, represents the brevity of life.
GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, August 1991.
"Sleep lovely Babes Since God has call'd thee hence
Let us submit to his wise Providence"
The tympanum of their brown sandstone stele features tulips, instead of soul effigies typical of the colonial era, and like the ornately carved floral borders, represents the brevity of life.
GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, August 1991.
Inscription
(ABIGAIL's on right side of stone)
"Here lyeth Abigail
Daughter of Mr
Samuel & Elisabeth
Woodruff born
Sepr the 14th 1736
Decs'd Sepr ye 27th
1736 aged 13 days"
"Sleep lovely Babes Since God has Call'd thee hence
Let us Submit to his wise Providence"
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