101 Ways, Part 104: Left to Go and Be with Christ

For a brief intro to the "101 Ways to Say 'Died'" series, click here.

I thought I had posted this picture before, but now I can't find it, so perhaps I did not.

This beautiful gravestone was carved by Solomon Brewer and can be found in Hadley, MA. Like many stones from the Connecticut River Valley, Sarah Hopkins' is made from red sandstone, but it is a finer, firmer sandstone than you sometimes see in Connecticut. It's in amazing shape — no major flakes are missing.

I'm not sure I've ever seen curly brackets on an 18th-century gravestone before.

Here rests SARAH, wife of ye

Revd; S. HOPKINS, & Relict of ye

Revd; C. WILLIAMS; an Exem-

plary Christian, pleasant &

lovely in her Life, & lament-

ed in her Death. She left {to

go & be with CHRIST,} A sorrow-

ful Husband & 14 Children

Febr, 5th AD 1774 AE 48.

Favour is deceitful, & Beauty is

vain: but A Woman that feareth

the Lord, she shall be praised.