Lieut. Jonathan Moor
d Feb 7, 1776, 68 yrs

Death is a debt to Nature due

Which I have paid, and so must you.

Our time on earth is short we see,

O, then prepare to follow me.

Deidamia Spencer m. Dr x Schuler
d Jan 13, 178, 22 yrs

Here gentle reader make a moment’s pause

Think how precarious every human joy

See Nature’s bloom described by natures cause

And death releasing what it can’t destroy.

Samuel Roe
d June 11, 1783, 66 yrs

Think reader when my grave you view

There’s a clear looking glass for you

To see yourself of mortal make

And learn from me your destined fate.

Elisha Robin Jr.
d Oct 12, 1786, 38 yrs

Here lies one man freed from strife

The square and compass marked his life

You that survive me and pass by

Remember you must shortly die

Remember this and bear in mind

And live a Godley life and pure

That you at last may admittance find

In a home that’s xxx secure.

Dr. John Bull
d May 23, 1786 44 yrs

The radiant soul sublime

Must leave this lonely clay

Till it will be refine

For sor a reuniting Day

When they who’ve faith in Christ

And hope in God the three

Shall all be saved at last.

By Faith, Hope and Charity.

Abigail Spencer, consort Philip
d Dec 18, 1787, 53 yrs

This stone is erected by her sone Ambrose

Spencer to record the filial love for one

Of the best of mothers, who in her religion

Was sincere, in her morals pure and in her

Life xxx

Phebe wife Dr John Bull
d Dec 9, 1788, 37 yrs

Weep not sweet orphan xxx

Nor sigh within your heart

Kind death eas’d me from pain

God’s granted my request

Compose your thoughts and say

The rise in Death may sing

And learn from this my clay

That death has lost its sting

Kersey, d Maj. Abraham Hartwell
d Oct 10, 1798, 14 yrs

Death like an overflowing stream

Sweeps us away; our life’s a dream

An empty tale; a morning flower;

Cut down and withered in an hour.

James Reynolds Jr.
d 1799, 26 yrs

Farewell my friends, I bid a long adieu

Farewell gay world, I have no use for you

Kind parents weep not, nor weep my kindred near

From every face eternal love wipes every tear.

Behold the body molders in the tomb

For dust thou art and to dust though must return.

Each moment the, improve it as it flies,

Think what a moment is to him who dies.

Anna Roe consort of Samuel
d May 12, 1800, 77 yrs

Beneath this stone my body lies

My soul is gone above the skies

But when the Saviour comes to reign

He’ll raise my sleeping dust again.

Abner Brown s Stephen and Lydia
d Apr 8, 1801, 22 yrs

Here lies a youth sudden cut down

And fled into a world unknown

You that survive me and pass by

Remember you must shortly die.

Mary Buttolph, consort of David
d Oct 10, 1801, 93 yrs

See here mother the grave’s dark cavern hid

The tender parent, sympathetic friend

Till the last trump shall make the silent dead

And time and nature end.

Rev. Simon Dakin
(founder of Spencer’s Corners Baptist Church)
d Sept 19, 1803, 83 years

A dying preacher I have been

To dying hearers such as you.

Tho’ dead, a preacher still I am

To all who come my grave to view

May this a solemn warning be

That you must quickly follow me.

Rhoda, consort of Benj. Ivey
d May 12, 1805, 52 yrs

Marble tell they solemn tale

And those will mourn who read

In here a wife and mother dear

Lyes mouldering with the dead

Her partner left, and children too.

And bade them all farewell

Xxx this concludes prepare for death

And with the blest you’ll dwell.

Sally, d. of Benj. & Rhoda Corey
d Jun 8, 1806, 8 yrs 4 mos 21 days

Eight years had run

Their annual round

When Sally heard Deaths solemn sound

Two days and nights

In paid most keen

She spent, when closed

Her eyes were seen

Hervey Roe Esq. s Mercy and Silas
d Feb 17, 1809, 25 yrs

Life! How short, Eternity! How long.

Simeon Kellsy
d Nov 25, 1812, 79 yrs

So you must all obey death’s call

In God’s appointed way,

Men, xxx and youth this is a truth

Entombed in dust must lay.

O then prepare to meet your fate

Nor put it off till it’s too late.

Keep Christ’s commands, nor let your hands

Engage in vice or fraud.

Learn of him, meekness to possess

Learn of him, gentleness and peace.

So when life closes you shall sweetly sing

Your conquest o’er the grave and death’s terrific sting.

Philip Spencer Esq.
(after whom Spencer’s Corners is named)
d May 8, 1815 86th yr

This stone is erected by his son Ambrose

Spencer as a testimonial of the filial love

Which he bore, to a parent who exhibited thro

Life the tenderest affection for his children, who

Lived an honest man and died a Christian.

Lyman Roe s Silas & Mercy
d Feb 25, 1819. 24 yrs

Adieu dear youth thy rich reward

The bliss that ne’er can cloy

Receive of thy appraising Lord

To enter in his joy

Alva Roe
d July 25, 1825. 28 yrs

While pensive o’er this dust you tread

Let tears for me no more be shed

But mourn your follies past.

Prepare to meet thy Maker soon,

Thy morning sure may set at noon

Frail life; it cannot last.

Catherine Lawrence m Calvin Lawrence
d Mar 17, 1851, 72yrs

My mother sleeps beneath this stone

While I am left to weep alone

Oh when the dead in Christ arise,

May I behold her in the skies.

Eliza Maria m Philo Race
d Nov 12, 1857.  35yrs

Farewell my dear husband and children and friends that I loved

Live nigh to the savior and we shall soon meet above

Yet again we hope to meet thee

When the day of life is fled

Then in heaven with joy to greet thee

There no farewell tears is shed.

Zada Reynolds wife of Isaac
d Nov 30, 1864. 71 yrs 7 mos 19 days

Dearest mother thou has left us

Here thy loss we deeply feel

But tis God that hath bereft us

He can all our sorrows heal.

Rachel Reynolds
d July 11, 1875. 48 yrs 1 mo 7 days

“We mourn, but not without hope, she lived a Christian”

Solomon J.D. Scidmore
d Nov 11, 1879. 71 yrs 9 mos

Pause, as you pass by

So you are now so once was I

As I am now so you will be

Prepare for death and follow me