"Aged 85 years 11 months and 25 days"
From tour guide: Schoolmaster who owned the Leffer's house on the Site.
Info contributed by Ralph (#46818403): Born in Hampsread, Queens, NY, came to Beaufort in 1764; wrote his own inscription includes the verse "Praises on tombstones are but idly spent/ A mans good name is his best monument"; (son of Leffert Haughwout & Mary Smith)
Died on the Straits in Carteret County, on the 8th instant, Mr. SAMUEL LEFFERS, Sr. in the 86th year of his age. He was a citizen of that county for 56 years, and led a life devoted to his God and his country. He died with perfect resignation, and even prayed for a release from the toils of this weary pilgrimage. AMICUS.
—Published in Carolina Centinel (New Bern, North Carolina), Saturday, October 19, 1822, p. 3.
From tour guide: Schoolmaster who owned the Leffer's house on the Site.
Info contributed by Ralph (#46818403): Born in Hampsread, Queens, NY, came to Beaufort in 1764; wrote his own inscription includes the verse "Praises on tombstones are but idly spent/ A mans good name is his best monument"; (son of Leffert Haughwout & Mary Smith)
Died on the Straits in Carteret County, on the 8th instant, Mr. SAMUEL LEFFERS, Sr. in the 86th year of his age. He was a citizen of that county for 56 years, and led a life devoted to his God and his country. He died with perfect resignation, and even prayed for a release from the toils of this weary pilgrimage. AMICUS.
—Published in Carolina Centinel (New Bern, North Carolina), Saturday, October 19, 1822, p. 3.
"Aged 85 years 11 months and 25 days"
From tour guide: Schoolmaster who owned the Leffer's house on the Site.
Info contributed by Ralph (#46818403): Born in Hampsread, Queens, NY, came to Beaufort in 1764; wrote his own inscription includes the verse "Praises on tombstones are but idly spent/ A mans good name is his best monument"; (son of Leffert Haughwout & Mary Smith)
Died on the Straits in Carteret County, on the 8th instant, Mr. SAMUEL LEFFERS, Sr. in the 86th year of his age. He was a citizen of that county for 56 years, and led a life devoted to his God and his country. He died with perfect resignation, and even prayed for a release from the toils of this weary pilgrimage. AMICUS.
—Published in Carolina Centinel (New Bern, North Carolina), Saturday, October 19, 1822, p. 3.
From tour guide: Schoolmaster who owned the Leffer's house on the Site.
Info contributed by Ralph (#46818403): Born in Hampsread, Queens, NY, came to Beaufort in 1764; wrote his own inscription includes the verse "Praises on tombstones are but idly spent/ A mans good name is his best monument"; (son of Leffert Haughwout & Mary Smith)
Died on the Straits in Carteret County, on the 8th instant, Mr. SAMUEL LEFFERS, Sr. in the 86th year of his age. He was a citizen of that county for 56 years, and led a life devoted to his God and his country. He died with perfect resignation, and even prayed for a release from the toils of this weary pilgrimage. AMICUS.
—Published in Carolina Centinel (New Bern, North Carolina), Saturday, October 19, 1822, p. 3.
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