Born c.1750, Lydia Jones was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer Capt. Zebulon Jones, and the daughter of Joseph Harrison by his second wife, the former Mary Tompkins. Her grieving husband had a fine, ledger-style gravestone "Erected as a Token of Conjugal Affection" on her grave. Carved from brown sandstone, it features soul effigies with elongated oval faces in its upper corners. Described in the inscription as the Captain's "late Consort", Mrs. Jones "Departed this transitory Life" just before the end of the Revolutionary War, "In the 32nd Year of her Age". A devoted wife and mother, she is memorialized in a touching epitaph that reflects her husband's sense of loss:
"Who can refute the tributary sigh
When dear domestic female Virtues die
Weep Maidens here the indulg'nt Mistress dead
Ye plaintive Poor your kind reliever fled
Ye Husbands Matrons & Children come & mourn
The fondest Wife & Mother in her Urn
Friends Kindred Neighbours & all your grief express
And sympathetic share in JONES' deep distress"
Unfortunately, this otherwise well-preserved gravestone has been marred by graffiti.
"Who can refute the tributary sigh
When dear domestic female Virtues die
Weep Maidens here the indulg'nt Mistress dead
Ye plaintive Poor your kind reliever fled
Ye Husbands Matrons & Children come & mourn
The fondest Wife & Mother in her Urn
Friends Kindred Neighbours & all your grief express
And sympathetic share in JONES' deep distress"
Unfortunately, this otherwise well-preserved gravestone has been marred by graffiti.
Born c.1750, Lydia Jones was the wife of American Revolutionary War officer Capt. Zebulon Jones, and the daughter of Joseph Harrison by his second wife, the former Mary Tompkins. Her grieving husband had a fine, ledger-style gravestone "Erected as a Token of Conjugal Affection" on her grave. Carved from brown sandstone, it features soul effigies with elongated oval faces in its upper corners. Described in the inscription as the Captain's "late Consort", Mrs. Jones "Departed this transitory Life" just before the end of the Revolutionary War, "In the 32nd Year of her Age". A devoted wife and mother, she is memorialized in a touching epitaph that reflects her husband's sense of loss:
"Who can refute the tributary sigh
When dear domestic female Virtues die
Weep Maidens here the indulg'nt Mistress dead
Ye plaintive Poor your kind reliever fled
Ye Husbands Matrons & Children come & mourn
The fondest Wife & Mother in her Urn
Friends Kindred Neighbours & all your grief express
And sympathetic share in JONES' deep distress"
Unfortunately, this otherwise well-preserved gravestone has been marred by graffiti.
"Who can refute the tributary sigh
When dear domestic female Virtues die
Weep Maidens here the indulg'nt Mistress dead
Ye plaintive Poor your kind reliever fled
Ye Husbands Matrons & Children come & mourn
The fondest Wife & Mother in her Urn
Friends Kindred Neighbours & all your grief express
And sympathetic share in JONES' deep distress"
Unfortunately, this otherwise well-preserved gravestone has been marred by graffiti.
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