101 Ways, Part 88: Left Her Weeping Friends

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In Memory of

Miss RUTHE LYMAN

who was possessed of many

amiable qualities, the joy of

her parents, the delight of

her connexions and

beloved of all : if youth,

if virtue deserve a Tear,

reader, drop it here

when the engraving of this Stone

inform you when she left

her weeping friends in the

23d year of her age June 22d 1785.

Ruthe Lyman, York, ME, 1785

The Farber Collection has a slightly better picture.