101 Ways, Part 68: Chearfully Resigned Her Spret Into the Hand of Jesus

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This elaborated form of "resigned his soul to God" can be found in the graveyard in Mansfield Center, CT:

The Memory of Mrs. Hannah williams

Daugher of ye Revd Mr. Eleazer & Mrs.

Mary Williams Who after A patient

Enduring of a Lingring Sickness and

Experience of the divine power and

Grace Chearfully Resigned her Spret [spirit]

Into the hand of jesus in hops of the

promise of Eternal Life on the 18th of

Novemr. 1749 in ye 27[?] Year of her Age.

The raised head, turkey-feather fan, pinwheels, and central heart all point to this as the work of Benjamin Collins. Collins, a student of Obadiah Wheeler, replicated his teacher's discursive epitaph style.