Agnes Ewins, Age 27, died 1782, Londonderry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire. At the time of this burial, this cemetery was located in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Memento mori

Erected In memory of

Mifs Agnes Ewins

Daughter of Mr. James

Ewins & Mrs. Margaret

his wife who departed this

Life Janr. 25, 1782, Aged 27

Years 4 months & 13 days.

Affliction fore long time I bore

Phyficians were in vain,

Till God did pease & death did seize

To Ease me of my pain.

To see more tombstones of the Ewins family at Forest Hill Cemetery, click this link:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/tombstone-tuesday-ewins-family.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Agnes Ewins, Age 27, died 1789, Londonderry, New Hampshire ~ Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 4, 2020, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/02/agnes-ewins-age-27-died-1782.html: accessed [access date]).

Tombstone Tuesday - Ewins Family

These gravestones were photographed at the Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire.  They are located near the Old Settlers gravestones area behind the First Parish Church.

HERE LIES
THE BODY OF
MRS. AGNES
WIFE OF MR. JAMES
EWINS WHO DIED
JAN 6TH 1742
IN YE 27th YEAR
OF HER AGE

My
glass is Rum
Redem           And
your hours        so must you

THIS Monument is Erected
In memory of Mr. JAMES
EWINS & Mrs AGNES his wife
She died Jan. 6th 1742
in the 27th year of her age
He departed this Life June
the 26th 1781 aged 70
Years and 10 months

closeup of the carver's mistakes

footstone

Mr
James Ewins and
Mrs. Agnes his 1st wife

Because of the two mistakes on the top of this headstone, especially the word "Rum", this headstone has appeared in many books like "Believe It or Not" and compilations of funny epitaphs such as Last Laughs: Funny Tombstone Quotes and Famous Last Words, by Kathleen E. Miller, Sterling Publishing Company, 2006.   I previously blogged about this infamous carving mistake at this link:  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/tombstone-tuesday-my-glass-is-what.html

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday - Ewins Family", Nutfield Genealogy, posted November 22, 2011, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/11/tombstone-tuesday-ewins-family.html: accessed [access date]). 

Tombstone Tuesday- "my glass is... what!"

Tombstone of James Ewins,
buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry in 1781

Perhaps the carver had a bit too much grog?
There are two typos ("carvos?") on this stone,

but he could only fix one mistake:

"Rede^em your hours
My glass is Rum
And so must yours"

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday - "My glass is... what!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 26, 2010, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/tombstone-tuesday-my-glass-is-what.html: accessed [access date]).