Mrs. Susannah Stone

Sep 9, 1748 – Sep 9, 1772

Transcription

In Memory of M_rs. SUSANNAH STONE the Wife of M_r. EDMUND STONE who Departed this life September the 9th 1772 in the 24_th Year of her Age

the Sweet Remembrance of the Just Shall Florish Where She Sleeps in Dust

Surveyed On: October 23, 2015

Stone Type: slate

Tympanum: face with ornamentation

Border: Damage has been done to the top of the tympanum, yet it is still decipherable. 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. While this could be taken as a version of the bewigged judge figure, the smile takes this interpretation in a different direction. 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.

Physical Status: straight missing_parts

Intelligibility: readable, broken images or writing

Biological Contaminants: minor incursion

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