Gravestone of the Day

Henry Sewall, 1792, York, ME

In Memory of

Mr. HENRY SEWALL.

Bricklayer;

who departed this Life

Novr. 2d. 1792: in the

66th. Year of his Age.

He was an honest Man,

and a Christian . . . . . .

"No farther seek his Merits to disclose,

Or search his Frailties from the dread abode;

There they alike in trembling hope repose

The bosom of his Father, and his GOD."

The final verse is the last stanza of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" (1750).