Sacred
to the memory of
MARY ADAMS
daughter of Mr. Samuel &
Mrs. Sarah Adams
who died Nov. 9, 1818
aged 1 yr. & 14 days.
While cleaving to this darling dust,
And weeping at her grave
We would adore the wise and just
Who takes but what He gave.
Colonel Samuel Adams was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on 20 April 1779 and died 12 September 1861 aged 82 years. He was a son of the Elder David Adams and Mary Woodman. Colonel Samuel Adams was a descendant of Robert Adams (1602 - 1682) of Newbury.
Sarah Fitz, his wife, died 26 April 1878, aged 84 years. Sarah was the daughter of Currier Fitz and Sarah George of Hampstead, Sandown and Derry, New Hampshire. Her brother Daniel graduated from Dartmouth College and the Andover Theological Seminary and was a pastor at Ipswich, Massachusetts from 1826 to 1867.
To see an online version of The Descendants of Robert Adams of Newbury, Mass, by Andrew N. Adams, 1900, (see page 126 for Colonel Samuel Adams) click this link:
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ankeny/folklore/Robert%20of%20Newbury/Robert%20Capture.pdf
UPDATE - January 22, 2020 A has reader figured out the missing words in the epitaph above "adore the wise" by googling the words of the poetry and matching it to this Barnstable, Massachusetts epitaph on Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130618406/joseph-smith
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Mary Adams, Infant, died 1818, Derry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 21, 2020, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/12/mary-adams-infant-died-1818-derry-new.html: accessed [access date]).
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