Excert from "A Walk in a Country Churchyard" by Luke Smith Mote
"Moving westward a little further we see a row of small graves with broader, rough headstones well down in the earth, and by parting the grass we discover a few initials and figures cut upon their face: N E B H A B [?] c, children of Oliver and N. Benton, little girls only a little way out of childhood, taken away from the evil to come -- but a great grief to their mother as then her only daughters. O. B. was one of Milton's first merchant[s] for some twenty years -- he put up the corner brick now owned (1878) by Coates -- they went to Wapelto in Iowa many years ago, 1838-9. His wife died there some years after, and he in Saint Louis not long since."
"Moving westward a little further we see a row of small graves with broader, rough headstones well down in the earth, and by parting the grass we discover a few initials and figures cut upon their face: N E B H A B [?] c, children of Oliver and N. Benton, little girls only a little way out of childhood, taken away from the evil to come -- but a great grief to their mother as then her only daughters. O. B. was one of Milton's first merchant[s] for some twenty years -- he put up the corner brick now owned (1878) by Coates -- they went to Wapelto in Iowa many years ago, 1838-9. His wife died there some years after, and he in Saint Louis not long since."
Excert from "A Walk in a Country Churchyard" by Luke Smith Mote
"Moving westward a little further we see a row of small graves with broader, rough headstones well down in the earth, and by parting the grass we discover a few initials and figures cut upon their face: N E B H A B [?] c, children of Oliver and N. Benton, little girls only a little way out of childhood, taken away from the evil to come -- but a great grief to their mother as then her only daughters. O. B. was one of Milton's first merchant[s] for some twenty years -- he put up the corner brick now owned (1878) by Coates -- they went to Wapelto in Iowa many years ago, 1838-9. His wife died there some years after, and he in Saint Louis not long since."
"Moving westward a little further we see a row of small graves with broader, rough headstones well down in the earth, and by parting the grass we discover a few initials and figures cut upon their face: N E B H A B [?] c, children of Oliver and N. Benton, little girls only a little way out of childhood, taken away from the evil to come -- but a great grief to their mother as then her only daughters. O. B. was one of Milton's first merchant[s] for some twenty years -- he put up the corner brick now owned (1878) by Coates -- they went to Wapelto in Iowa many years ago, 1838-9. His wife died there some years after, and he in Saint Louis not long since."
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