- Top of headstone for Mrs. Lucinda Patten who died November 11, 1789
- This is the top (tympanum) of the gravestone for the Caldwell children: Margaret, John, and Samuel, who passed in 1775, 1777, & 1782, at ages one, one year and 6 months, and three years old, respectively
- HERE LYES BURIED Ye BODY OF SAMUELL WENTWORTH SON OF SAMUELL & HANNAH WENTWORTH AGED ABOUT 20 YEARS… DECER. Ye. 6th. 1711.
- Sacred to the Memory of Mrs ELIZABETH Wife of DR DWELL MORGAN…


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