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proved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.

GALLIPOLIS, OHIO.

1008. Here lies the body of EULALIE COLOMBE MARRET, wife of Francis Le Clercq, esq. who died, 12 January, 1809, aged 23 years and 14 days.

1009.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

Sacred to the memory of JOSEPH GILMAN, who died, 14 May, 1806, aged 68 years. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Oh thou, with whom my heart was wont to share,
From reason's dawn, each pleasure and each care;
If thy blest nature now unites, above,
An angel's pity with a parent's love,
Still o'er my life preserve thy mild control,
Correct my views, and elevate my soul.

In memory of JANE R. WOODBRIDGE, who died, 18 September, 1808, in the 18 year of her age.

Calm be thy rest,

Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiven,

And mild as opening gleams of promis'd heaven, Note. The hon judge Gilman, originally from Exeter, N. H. was the father, and mrs. Woodbridge,

the daughter, of Benjamin Ives Gilman, esq. now of the city of Philadelphia.

The inscriptions detailed in this article are from a handsome monument in the cemetery on the west side of the Muskingum.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1010. Sacred to the memory of the rev. DANIEL STORY, A. M. a native of Boston, Massachusetts, educated at Dartmouth college, and the first minister of the congregational church in Marietta, who departed this life, 30 December, 1804, aged 49 years.

Note. The foregoing and four subsequent inscriptions are from the burial ground near the great tumulus in Marietta, which is at present about twenty five feet high. Its altitude was thirty feet, in 1789, when the first settlement was begun at this place. This, in connexion with the remains of the extensive fortifications still existing and which were erected, no doubt, more than a thousand years ago, strikes the mind of the beholder, as doctor Cutler well remarks, with astonishment. For an account of these interesting works of antiquity the reader is referred to Harris's Tour and Schultz's Travels.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1011. Sacred to the memory of EBEN

EZER BUELL, a native of Killingworth, Connecticut, who died, 23 June, 1802, aged 25 years.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1012. In memory of HANNAH STACEY, a native of Rhode Island, relict of colonel William Stacey, who died, 6 October, A. D. 1807, aged 74 years. The righteous are taken away

for the evil to come.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1013. Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM HALLEY, a native of Alexandria, Virginia, who died, 7 July, 1808, aged 59 years.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1014. Here are interred the remains of JOSEPH LINCOLN, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who died, 2 September, 1807, in the 47 year of his age; also RICHARD LINCOLN, Son of Joseph and Frances Lincoln, who died, 17 February, 1808, aged one year and one month.

Yes, all must yield to death's remorseless rage
Creation's brow shall wrinkle up with age,

Time shall remove the keystone of the sky,
Heaven's roof shall fall, and all but virtue die.

MARIETTA, OHIO.

1015. Sacred to the memory of NOAH FEARING, esq. a native of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, who died, 26 March, 1809, aged 77 years.

Note. The remains of mr. Fearing, the father of the present hon. judge Fearing, are interred on the western side of the Muskingum.

ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

1016. Sacred to the memory of CATHA RINE HAHN, daughter of Paul and Christina Hahn, born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 11 April, 1791, and departed this life, 6 February, 1811, in the 20 year of

her age.

Soon shall the great archangel's voice
Make all, that die in Christ, rejoice;

May we like her be found prepar'd
To meet our Saviour's great reward.

NEW LANCASTER, OHIO,

1017 Here lieth the body of FRANCIS KNAUS, who departed this life, 14 January, 1312, was aged 29 years, 6 months, 3 weeks,

and 6 days, who was a kind husband and a tender father.

Kind angels watch the sleeping dust,
Till Jesus comes to raise the just;
Then may he wake with sweet surprise
And in his Saviour's image rise.

WESTERN WOODS.

1018. Nole.-TECUMSEH, a late brigadier geueral in the service of his Britannick majesty, a native of Chilicothe in Ohio, was killed by col. John. son's mounted riflemen, near the Moravian town on the Thames, 140 miles from Malden, soon after Barclay's defeat. He was about 42 years of age and was younger than his brother, who has, for a number of years, been known by the name of The Prophet. The latter, who acquired this appellation, in the first instance, by foretelling the great eclipse in 1806, the knowledge of which he gained from the shakers, died, as is supposed, of sickness, soon after his brother.

Tecumseh, or, as he was called by his countrymen, Tecumtheh, was remarkable for his athletick powers, valour, and eloquence. He was of the Shawanese tribe and rose to distinction, not by his birth, being of what was accounted a humble origin, but by his talents, which were brilliant and popular among the natives of the forest. He was consequently elected by the Pottawottamies, Kickapoos, Shawanese, Wyandots, and other tribes, their

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