Mrs. Sarah Chaffin

Sep 28, 1739 – Sep 28, 1767

Buried at Old Burying Ground

Transcription

ERECTED In Memory of Mrs. SARAH CHAFFIN Wife of Mr. Sam'l Challin, who departed this life Sept. y_e 28th 1767 in y_e 28th Year of her Age.

Death is a debt to nature due Which I have paid & so must you.

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Surveyed On

November 16, 2015

Stone Type

slate

Tympanum

face with ornamentation, memento mori

Border

A two line, thin width border runs along the outside border of this stone. The gabled plaque of the tablet section has a separate single line border around it. As the plaque is presented in bas-relief, there is a deep line with an increasing elevation around it's circumference. The plaque looks mounted in a stone frame.

Remark

The three design elements in the tympanum are jammed into their space. The memento mori gets the center space. There is a generic body and face in an niche at the center of this tympanum. Unisex with straight combed back here, the reality of the face is clearly from a later period. Mirror image vines grow from the stone's shoulders to the left and right of the figure.

Physical Status

straight less_than_20_degrees

Intelligibility

readable

Biological Contaminants

minor incursion

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