The daughter of John and Helena Morris Rutherfurd, Miss Mary Rutherfurd, unlike most women of her day, was admired for her business acumen, and had served as the executor of her father's substantial estate. She had lived with her younger sister, Miss Louisa Rutherfurd, at "Eastridge", a Passaic Avenue residence they'd bought together. As close in death as they had been in life, the wrought iron fence surrounding the Rutherfurd sisters' graves casts its diagonal shadows across their matching ledgerstones. Miss Mary, who was born at the close of the Revolutionary War, died 3 years after the Civil War had ended, at the age of 84. In a reference to her beloved younger sister, Louisa, who had died 11 years earlier at the age of 65, Miss Mary's stone bears the inscription "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in death they were not divided." GRAVESTONE PHOTOS: Nikita Barlow
The daughter of John and Helena Morris Rutherfurd, Miss Mary Rutherfurd, unlike most women of her day, was admired for her business acumen, and had served as the executor of her father's substantial estate. She had lived with her younger sister, Miss Louisa Rutherfurd, at "Eastridge", a Passaic Avenue residence they'd bought together. As close in death as they had been in life, the wrought iron fence surrounding the Rutherfurd sisters' graves casts its diagonal shadows across their matching ledgerstones. Miss Mary, who was born at the close of the Revolutionary War, died 3 years after the Civil War had ended, at the age of 84. In a reference to her beloved younger sister, Louisa, who had died 11 years earlier at the age of 65, Miss Mary's stone bears the inscription "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in death they were not divided." GRAVESTONE PHOTOS: Nikita Barlow
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