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Derby Colonial Cemetery
Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

John  Herpin  Gibbs


2007

 "In memory of
John Heppin Gibbs
son to Mr Edward
and Mrs Ruth Gibbs
who died with the small pox
April 23 1799
Aetat 9 years.
  Hard lot to lose this child of mine
   Since God thought it best
   To lay him in the dust
  I must not murmer nor repine."

Orcutt, Rev. Samuel,  History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880,
   (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
page 806

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