Mary Hills

People Buried Here

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In memory of / ROBERT HILLS / who died 5th July 1813 aged 77 years / left issue two sons and six daughters / "in the gay scene too oft of giddy youth / he sought his God and chose the paths of truth: / those paths he trod to life’s meridian stage / those paths pursu’d to long extended age / Pain he endur’d but from affliction’s flame / like Gold refulgent from the furnace came / till in full age and well prepared for death / calm and unruffl’d he resigned his breath / Reflection / perhaps some critic, or perhaps some friend / may ask ‘and what’s the good these lines intend?’ / Live o’er his life and such shall be thine end" / MARY wife of the above / ROBERT HILLS / who died the 20th February 1820 / aged 85 years