Tombstone Tuesday ~ An Update on a Tombstone

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire.  This area was called Londonderry at the time this tombstone was erected.

This blog post has updated genealogy information on the people named on this tombstone, and an attempt to decipher the nearly illegible epitaph at the bottom of the tombstone, obscured by age and lichen moss.  I posted a previous story and photograph of this tombstone at this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/10/tombstone-tuesday-john-and-mary.html

ERECTED IN MEMORY

OF MR. JOHN CAMPBELL

AND MRS MARY HIS WIFE

By their Son, Henry Campbell

MR. CAMPBELL           MRS CAMPBELL

Died March 11            died August 8

1759                                1765

In the 51^st year            in the 55 year

Of his age                     of her age

“Hark from the tomb is a solemn sound

Reader attend the cry

Ye living come and view the ground

Where you must shortly lie”

Lo, here the mouldering body leave

What ?? bids you ???

"For dust and ashes preach

Man’s infinite concern."

Son of Henry & Martha Campbell of Windham, NH

The Campbell family genealogy:

Generation 1: Daniel Campbell, born about 1660 in Argyleshire, Scotland, died in Northern Ireland.  He was an officer in the army of William III (William the Prince of Orange), and at the Battle of Boyne Waters.  He settled in Northern Ireland.

Generation 2: Henry Campbell, born 1697 in Londonderry, Ireland, died 1 October 1782 in Windham, New Hampshire; married Martha Black, daughter of Capt. William Black. Ten children – all sons.

Generation 3: John Campbell, born 1727 in Northern Ireland, died 11 March 1758/9 in Londonderry, New Hampshire; married Mary Reid who died 1758 soon after the birth of her only child, Henry.

Generation 4: Henry Campbell, born May 8, 1757 who was adopted by his grandfather Henry, the emigrant.  He was known as “Merchant Henry”.  He lived in Windham on the Henry C. Crowell farm.  He married his cousin, Hannah, daughter of William Campbell, and died 31 January 1835 in Windham.  Six children.  Henry Campbell erected the monument in Derry’s Forest Hill Cemetery in honor of his parents.

For more information:

Rev. J. L. Merrill, History of Acworth (New Hampshire),  1869

Leonard A. Morrison,  History of the Town of Windham, New Hampshire, 1719-1883, 1883

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo,  "Tombstone Tuesday ~  An Update on a Tombstone", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 8, 2018, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/05/tombstone-tuesday-update-on-tombstone.html: accessed [access date]).