This stone is inscribed to the memory of Sarah Baldwin wife of Timothy Baldwin and daughter of Murray H Lester of Poukeepsie who died Dec 21 A D 1812 æ 65 Why are friends ravished from us? 'T is to bind By soft affection ties on human hearts The thoughts of death which reason too supine Or misemployed so rarely fastens there. Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880, (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880) page 815 |