Gravestone has an interesting epitaph
Reader remember as you pass by as you are now so once was I as i am now so you
Must be prepare for death and follow me.
This was a popular epitaph on the earliest markers erected by the New England Puritans. The Puritans were a people who suffered the rigors of severe climate,Famine, and epidemics. Death for them was a fearsome prospect. The Carvings on their stones and their epitaphs reflect this attitude toward death. Rozey stinson died in 1859 at age 39. One might wonder why a Puritan epitaph from an earlier time period was inscribed on her stone.
Transcribed by Joshua S. George P. Shane F.
Biographical Sketch
During Rozey Stinson’s life, she was married to a man named James. The Erie Canal opened in 1825. This linked the Hudson River and the Great Lakes together. This also lead to greater growth in the western part of the state. When she was 7 years old, New York outlawed slavery. New York had more anti-slavery organizations than any other state. New York also had strong abolitionist leaders. Some of them were Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and more than 300 other men and women got together in Seneca Falls when she was 28 years old. This was for the nation's first women's rights convention. Millard Fillmore was sworn into office as the 13th President of the United States when she was 30 years old. Rozey Stinson died at age 39 in the year of 1859.