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Title: Inscriptions on the tablets and gravestones in St. Michael's church and churchyard, Charleston, S.C., to which is added from the church records a list of interments of persons to whom there are no stones
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jervey, Clare, comp
Subjects: Epitaphs
Publisher: Columbia, S.C., The State company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y of Sept. 1828, The South Carolina Society Have erected this Tablet. Recommendations from the most respectablesources of the high attainments of this lady induced the Trustees of the Academies established by the Society to select her as the Principal of the Female department. Urged by a pious sense of filial duty To contribute to the comfort of an aged mother she sought the responsible office, and in a short time fulfilled the hopes which her reputation had authorised. To an energy not inconsistent with the character of the softer sex She added an urbanity, which tempered without impairing her discipline. The interesting objects of her care acknowledged the justness of her decisions whilst they were grateful for the mildness with which these were enforced. Zealous and cheerful in the discharge of her duties, she won the studious application of her admiring pupils, whose innocent tears consecrate the memory of her Virtues, and afford the best illustration of her eminent worth. (F, 4.)
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Photograph by Clare Jcn^cy. THltEE GENEKATlK.NS ON ONE STONE. St Michaels Churchyard 25 Sacred & Solemn to the Memory of 1 in 4 & 4 in 1. A Husband, Father, Grandfather & Father in Law JOHN SINGLETONdeparted this life in the 40th. year ofhis age on the 10th. September 1 799. JOHN J. SIMMS his grandson on the 16th. November 1806 in the morning of his life aged 20 months and 2 weeks. HARRIET SIMMS his only daughter mother of the infant and wife of Wm. Simms on the 29th. January 1808 in the bloom of life aged 23 years. Man Cometh up like a shadow and iscut down like a flower. No longer the Physicians healing art availsBut every remedy its master fails. Happy the babe who privileged by fateTo shorter labor and a lighter weightReceived but yesterday the gift of breathOrdered tomorrow to return to death. (D, 6.) 252 Inscriptions on Gravestones Here lyes the Bodyof EBENEZER SIMMONS the Son of James and Ann Simmons who died ye 26 of July 1 766 Aged 2 Years and 10 Days. IG, 4.) Sac

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