Mr. Desire French

Sep 11, 1747 – Sep 11, 1772

In Memory of. M_r. DESIRE FRENCH Who Departed this Life September the 11th 1772 Aged 25 Years.

Verily Every Man at his Bebt (sic Debt)

Border: The tympanum top border uses mirror imaged seed imagery with the plant in the center. At the stone's shoulders, a large contoured space encapsulates the illustrated side panels and forms an outer progressively thinner outer border. The panel illustrations are topped by a pinwheel, cyclone-like design integrated with a series of almost paisley-like design cascading down the length of the panels. The tablet itself has a thin width, two line border with corner hash marks in a very light touch bas-relief detail.

Remark: Inside of the decorative upper border, the space is taken up by the large head and the two wings. Due to the thin lower chin area, it appears that the head could have been cut as either a skull or face. He appears to be a version of the bewigged judge figure. The facial details, especially the eye lashes, are stylized. The wings are divided into two types with a shorter tab like feather in the wing's lead edge. A longer, flowing feather follows.