lie here interred.

They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years and without an estate

or any gainful employment by constant labor and honest industry maintained a large

family comfortably and brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren res-

pectably from this instance reader be encouraged to diligence in thy calling and dis-

trust not providence. He was a pious and prudent man; she a discreet and virtuous woman

Their youngest son,

in filial regard to their memory places this stone

J.F. born 1655 _ Died 1744 AE 89

AF 1667 _ 1752 _ 85

The original inscription having been nearly obliterated

a number of citizens

erected this monument, as a mark of respect

for the illustrious author