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have been formed which the school can never break. For six long years-the most impressionable, the most forma- tive years of a child's life-he has lived almost wholly in the home before ever entering the door of a school room.
Even after a child does enter school, what proportion of the time is he under the teacher's care? Only about five hours a day and five days a week is the school's time. What the boy or girl is doing the other 140 odd hours is surely of vital importance. Do the parents know? More important that school life, therefore, is the home atmos- phere and the standards of religion, morals, work and so- cial action that the conduct of the parents sets for the child.
"Can the school teach as much in one year as you can in 20?" asks Dr. P. P. Claxton, former U. S. Commissioner of Education, writing for "The Mother's Magazine." "Ob- viously, it cannot ; yet we mothers and fathers have always regarded the school as the one great educating influence in the lives of our children. The trouble is, that we have never stopped to realize what a really unimportant part the school plays in the building of character.
"Out of the 180,000 hours between birth and the age of legal maturity, the child spends an average of only 7,000 hours in school. The rest are passed in the home or in the home environment. You can see for yourself how trifling must be the influence of the school on your child's life. Are you going to leave his education up to the school any longer ?
"The home was the first, and still is the most important, institution for the education of children. All other agencies of education, however important, however well organized, are only secondary and supplementary to the home; and all of them do their work best when they remember this and co-operate with the home.
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"However efficient our schools may be, our children never can be fully and rightly educated until the homes do their part intelligently and faithfully."
More school visits by the parents, and perhaps some home visits by the teachers, will do much toward the strengthening of the co-operative spirit between the school and the home.
Conclusion
There is one recommendation which I wish to make for the thoughtful consideration of the parents. Health, as I have previously stated, is fundamental for efficient work and education. Although the school at present is doing a great deal along health lines, there is one phase which is neglected more than it should be. I refer to the matter of noon lunches. Only one or two pupils live near enough to go home for lunch at noon, thereby making it absolutely essential for practically all to bring lunches to school.
Day after day many pupils come to school without any lunch at all or just one sandwich of plain bread and butter. Many excuses prevail as to why the pupil has no lunch. "I forgot it" is probably the most common. "My mother didn't have time to put up a lunch," or "We didn't have anything in the house for lunch,"-these are only a few of the excuses offered. The sad part of the whole affair is that in most cases the pupils come with money with which to buy "something at the store." And what is bought? Something wholesome, nourishing and substan- tial? No, either fancy cookies or candy is almost always the purchase.
Some of the lunches brought to school look far from appetizing. Carrying sandwiches every day becomes a little monotonous after several weeks. A few children are in a position to bring milk with their lunches, but not many are situated so they are able to do this. During the
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three winter months cocoa is served at the school, but even this is only a small part of what should be done.
I would recommend that definite plans be made toward the establishment of a school lunch room some time in the future. The starting of such a plan would, no doubt, cost considerable; but there is no reason why it would not eventually pay for itself. Good nourishing lunches could be sold at cost price. The modern school is not complete without a lunch room; surely Lincoln needs one as much as, if not more than, schools in other towns and cities.
In closing, let me urge upon the parents and citizens that the Lincoln schools are their schools. They are the ones who pay the bills. Public opinion ultimately deter- mines the policy of any school system. Occasional visits to the school gives a person first-hand information ; rumors too frequently are not true. Educating our youth to be useful and upright citizens is the greatest task of all. We realize the responsibility that is ours in administrating these schools; do you appreciate your part of the task?
My appreciation of the effective manner in which they have given their services for Lincoln is expressed to the members of the School Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES M. ROBINSON, Superintendent of Schools.
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Statistics for Year Ending June 30, 1926
Pupils enrolled 233
Boys
134
Girls 99
Pupils for whom Town paid tuition elsewhere 32
Non-resident pupils attending school in Lincoln 28
Average daily attendance
204
Number of days schools were in session 177
Average membership
219
Expenditure for Support, Exclusive of General Control $24,182.26
Per pupil in average membership of elementary schools 76.34
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LINCOLN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Graduation Exercises June 16, 1926 Town Hall, Lincoln, Mass.
1. Opening Song, "National Hymn," ... JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
2. Address of Welcome, EDWARD CORRIGAN
3. Class History, RUTH LENNON
4. Piano Solo, . LESLIE ROLLINS
5. Poem, "Life Needs Us All," HARRIET ROBUS
6. Class Prophecy, Part I, EMMA GRAF
Part II, MARY CORRIGAN
EDITH ROGERS
7. Vocal Solo,
8. Class Will,
DUNCAN CHAPMAN
9. Poem, "If It's Worth While," BLANCHE MANDIGO
10. Class Song. "Our Lincoln School," GRADUATING CLASS
11. Closing Address, BERNICE HERSEY
12. "Commencement Song," JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES
ALGEO, MARGARET MANDIGO, BLANCHE
BUCHANAN, MARY
PEDERSEN, HAZEL
BURNS, DAISY
ROBUS, HARRIET
CORRIGAN, MARY
ROGERS, EDITH
GRAF, EMMA CHAPMAN, DUNCAN
GRAF, LOUISE
CORRIGAN, EDWARD
HOYT, PHYLLIS FLINT, WARREN
HERSEY, BERNICE JOHNSON, IVAN
LENNON, MARGARET MARTIN, GEORGE
LENNON, RUTH PEDERSEN, WILLIAM
MACFARLAND, GERTRUDE
ROLLINS, LESLIE
MACRAE, NELLIE
SEECKTS, ALBERT
Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1926 BOYS
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Total
Grade I.
1
11
1
1
14
II.
6
5
1
1
13
III.
3
3
2
3
11
IV.
6
10
3
3
1
23
4
9
3
0
1
17
4
4
3
5
16
5
9
1
16
3
1
3
VIII.
7
IX.
2
4
1
7
·
Total
1
17
9
11
17
19
15
16
10
8
1
124
138
V.
VI.
VII.
1
GIRLS
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Total
Grade I.
6
11
0
1
18
II.
3
3
1
7
III.
7
5
2
14
IV.
3
3
6
2
5
2
1
10
2
2
3
1
8
VI.
2
6
0
0
1
9
VII.
1
3
3
1
8
VIII.
2
10
2
1
1
16
IX.
Total
6
14
10
10
9
7
8
11
5
11
3
1
1
96
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V.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the Lincoln School Committee :-
A report of the school nursing for the year ending December 31, 1926 is hereby submitted.
Both schools have been visited daily. 758 Office calls of pupils treated or advised, 209 Home visits made.
19 pupils taken home on account of illness.
16 trips with children to various clinics which were chiefly the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Waltham Hospital Throat Clinic.
In September 1926 Dr. Wood gave successful vaccination to 12 pupils of the first grade.
During the year there have been:
6 cases of Measles.
1 case of German Measles.
1 case of Scarlet Fever
20 cases of Chicken Pox during April, May and June.
25 cases of Whooping Cough during October, November, and December.
10 cases of Typhoid Fever.
Physical examination by Dr. Henry A. Wood of the 216 pupils found :
70 cases of tonsils.
30 cases of adenoids.
40 cases of glands.
2 cardiac cases under treatment. C
2 infantile paralysis cases under treatment.
1 case of chlorea.
4 cases of marked poor posture.
10 pupils with dirty teeth.
79 pupils with carious teeth.
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Much improvement is shown over last year in regard to tonsils and in cases where tonsils have been removed glands are disappear- ing. Only 5 of the tonsil cases are especially defective. To my knowledge 20 pupils have had Tonsillectomy done during 1926.
Physical drills have been in force throughout the year, Miss Mills in charge of the girls and Mr. Robinson in charge of the boys. In good weather these exercises are given out of doors and enough can not be said of the good results obtained.
Following the instructions of Chapter 71 Section 57 of the General Laws, eye tests were made by the teachers with the assist- ance of the school nurse.
All pupils have been weighed and measured three times during the year. Weighing for December was omitted because of the additional Typhoid work. 38 pupils were 10% or more under- weight.
Under the joint auspicies of the School Committee, local Board of Health and State Department of Health an underweight clinic was held in Center School, May 12, 1926, 32 parents were inter- viewed, 17 requests for admission to clinic were signed.
16 pupils examined, 1 pupil absent.
Number of children given tubercolin test .
16
who reacted to the test 8
X-Rayed 7
cases classified as Suspects 5
X-Rayed and classified as negative 2
" children with enlarged tonsils and adenoids 3
66 in need of dentistry 10
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cases of Malnutrition 4
Starting January 22, 1926, Dr. Lyman A. Jones and Dr. Lom- bard of the State Department of Health, assisted by Dr. Henry A. Wood, school physician, gave the Schick Test and Diphtheria Toxin-Antitoxin Immunization to pupils, teachers, and nurse, making a total of 103 persons treated, of which 19 were negative,
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81 given toxin-antitoxin and 3 positive Schicks who did not wish to be immuned. It was interesting to note that the State and Boston City children made up the negative group, we presume their immunity was obained from a previous illness of Diphtheria or from receiving toxin-antitoxin in other schools.
A Pre-school Conference or Clinic for children from the ages of 6 months to 6 years was held in the Town Hall April 20, 1926, under the auspices of the District Nurse Committee and the Board of Health, 30 children were examined by Dr. Susan Coffin and Dr. Frederica Moore of the State Department of Child Hygiene assisted by Miss M. Gertrude Martin, R. N. and the local nurse.
Many remediable defects were discovered which we hope will receive attention before these children are admitted to school.
A very successful Dental Clinic was conducted through the Lincoln Dental Committee, Mrs. Susan M. Loring, Chairman. Dr. Edward Frye of the Little Building, Boston, was in charge of the clinic, which was held one morning of each week starting March 12, 1926 and ending June 14, 1926, making a total of 111/2 clinic days. Charges of 50c for cleanings and other work on the basis of $2.50 an hour were made.
Total number of pupils treated . 70
" cleanings
61
" extractions 62
" fillings 149
66
treatments 4
This new method of one morning a week was tried out in order to do follow-up work, but only three teeth had to be refilled. All of the work proved satisfactory.
At the present time New Rules and Regulations are being con- sidered for the Control of Communicable Diseases, to be used in schools.
41 days were spent in Sudbury.
Respectfully submitted with a sincere appreciation of help and kindness received.
DOROTHY C. RUDOLF, R. N.
MINIMUM QUARANTINE REQUIREMENTS
RECOMMENDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH*
DISEASE
MINIMUM PERIOD OF QUARANTINE OF PATIENT
ADULTS
IMMUNE CHILDREN
CHILDREN NOT IMMUNE
Anterior Poliomyelitis fantile Paralysis) .
(In-
Two weeks from onset of dis- No restrictions except as to No restrictions. ease, and thereafter until acute adult food handlers. (Note symptoms have subsided. 1.)
If child lives away from home one week and stays away from home, can re- enter school. Otherwise same restrictions as patient.
Yes.
Chicken Pox
Seven days and until all crusts No restrictions. have disappeared.
No restrictions.
No restrictions.
No.
Diphtheria
One week from date of report No restrictions save Note 2. If 2 negative cultures and until 2 successive negative cultures, taken at least 24 hours apart, from nose and throat, have been obtained.
are If 2 ) negative cultures are is taken and child lives away taken and quarantine effective the child then can from home, then can con- continue in school.
tinue in school. Quarantine at home otherwise.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever (Cere- bro-Spinal Meningitis) ... .
Two weeks from onset of di- No restrictions save in cer- sease, and thereafter until all tain occupations. (Note 1.) acute symptoms have ceased.
If child lives away from home 10 days and continues to live away from home, can re-enter school.
If child lives away from home 10 days and continues to live away from home, can re-enter school.
Yes.
German Measles . .
One week from date of rash.
No restrictions.
No restrictions.
No restrictions.
No.
Measles (Note 4)
One week from date of rash.
No restrictions save non- im- mune school teachers. These handled as non-immune chil- dren.
No restrictions.
Exclusion from school for 16 days from the date of last exposure.
Yes.
Mumps
One week from onset of disease, and thereafter until the dis- appearance of swelling of sali- vary glands.
No restrictions.
No restrictions.
No restrictions.
No.
Yes.
.
CONTROL OF CONTACTS
PLACARD
Scarlet Fever
Four weeks from date of rash No restrictions save in cer- and thereafter until the dis- tain occupations. (Note 1.) charges from nose and throat, ear or abscesses or other sur- faces (e. g., puerperal or surgi- cal scarlet fever) have ceased.
No restrictions if away from If child lives away home. from home one week and con- tinues to live away from home, can re-enter school.
Yes.
Smallpox
Three weeks and until crusts have disappeared and skin is liea led.
Note 3.
Note 3.
Note 3.
Yes.
Whooping Cough
Three weeks from beginning of No restrictions. spasmodic cough.
No restrictions.
Exclusion
from school 2
Yes.
weeks from exposure.
Typhoid Fever
One week after subsidence of No restrictions save for food clinical symptoms. If patient is handlers who cannot con- tinue any work requiring
a food handler he must have at least 2 negative cultures from food handling without per- both stool and urine. Cultures mission from the local Board must be taken at least a week of Health. apart. (Note 5.)
No restrictions.
No.
Septic Sore Throat
During the clinical course of the| During the clinical course of disease and canvalescense, com- plete exclusion of the patient from participation in the pro- (luction or handling of milk or
the disease and convales- cence, all contacts to be ex- cluded from participating in the production or handling milk products until permission of milk or milk products un- is granted by the local Board of til permission is granted by Health. the local Board of Health.
NOTES
1. School teachers should have same restrictions as school children. Food handlers and others whose occupation brings them in contact with children have no restrictions if they live away from home.
2. School teachers must have 2 successive negative cultures taken 24 hours apart; food handlers and others whose occupation brings them in contact with children one negative culture.
3. If the patient goes to the hospital, isolation for 3 weeks for the non- immune contacts. If the patient stays at home non-immune per- sons living in the same household with the patient must remain in quarantine for 3 weeks after death or recovery of the patient.
4. Warning signs on house seven days if there are no susceptibles in the family. If there are susceptibles the placard is kept on six- teen days. If on the 16th day there are children showing prodomal symptoms of measles the card is not removed.
5. It is recommended that at least 2 negative cultures from both stool and urine be obtained in all cases. Cultures should be taken at least a week apart.
*These same requirements are recommended by the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health.
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Notice :
Business Meeting, Monday, March 7th, at 1 P. M.
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County : GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the transaction of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lincoln on Monday, the seventh day of March next at one o'clock P. M., then and there to act on all of the following Articles, except Article 2, and also to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday, the 12th day of March next at 12:30 o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following Article 2, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested, in each of the Post Offices and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the seventh day of March next :
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March 12th, will be open at 12:30 o'clock P. M. and may be closed at 6:30 o'clock P. M.
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ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other Officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot, viz .:
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years. One member of the Board of Assessors for three years. One member of the Board of Health for three years. One member of the Board of Health for one year.
One Treasurer for one year. One Collector for one year.
One Auditor for one year.
Two Constables for one year.
One Tree Warden for .one year.
One member of the Trust. Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
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One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" on the following question :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of non-intoxicating beverages in this Town?"
ART. 3. To bring in their votes for any committees, com- missioners, trustees and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
ART. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Offi- cers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
ART. 5. To appropriate money for the necessary and ex- pedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in relation to the same.
ART. 6. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To determine the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow, during the mu- nicipal year, beginning January 1, 1927, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for the said year, giving the notes of the Town in payment therefor, payable in one year from the date thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote, shall be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.
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ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $200.00 or some other amount and elect a director, the money to be expended by and the di- rector to serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service, under the pro- visions of Sections 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachusetts.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will this year make ar- rangements with the Edison Electric Illuminating Com- pany for street lighting on the Tower Hill Road, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Water Commissioners to remove that part of the cement water pipe now located between the center of the Town and the railroad station and replace the same with suitable iron pipe, and provide the necessary funds for the cost of replacement by the issue of bonds, notes or otherwise, or take any action with reference to the matter.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will direct the Select- men to issue licenses to Inn-holders, common victuallers, and other keepers of restaurants or eating or drinking es- tablishments upon applications made therefor as pro- vided in Section 1 of Chapter 299 of the Acts of the year, 1926, or take any action in relation to the same.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will accept the legacies provided in the will of the late John H. Pierce and in the will of the late Miss Elsie Pierce, or take any action in re- gard to the same.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will indemnify the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims
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for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out and construction of a State Highway on the British Trail, so called, in Lincoln, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an in- demnity agreement therefor in behalf of the Town, or take any action with respect thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 391 of the Acts of 1923, an act which under certain conditions makes water taxes a lien on real estate.
HEREOF FAIL NOT
And make due return of this WARRANT with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 26th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven.
CHARLES S. SMITH C. LEE TODD ROBERT D. DONALDSON, Selectmen of Lincoln.
In Memoriam
INSCRIPTIONS Copied from the TOMB STONES in the ORIGINAL TOWN CEMETERY and the SECOND TOWN CEMETERY, made at the request of the LATE HON. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS by MISS EDITH BIGGS (MRS. HERBERT G. FARRAR)
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Number of stones with dates only 164
Number of stones with dates and verse 116
Number of stones with facts and verse 9
Number of stones with facts only . 20
Number of stones in Old Burying Ground . 75
Number of stones in Old Training Ground
196
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To be photographed Old Training Ground.
10
66
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172
12
68
118
178
22
72
119
180
25
75
120
194
28
79
133
Old Burying Ground
29
81
140
34
84
142
36
37
86
144
60
42
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43
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150
63
44
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ORIGINAL TOWN CEMETERY
Erected To the memory of MR. JOHN ADAMS, Son of Mr. James and Mrs. Delia Adams, who died at the Havana, Oct. 15, 1809, Aged 29 years.
He was most esteemed by those who knew him best.
In Memory of MR. JAMES ADAMS who died March 10, 1803: Ætatis 71.
Imitate his Virtues and follow him to Glory.
In memory of MRS. DELIA ADAMS, widow of the late Mr. James Adams, deceas'd, who died December 9th 1813, in the 70th Year of her age.
Sweet were the hopes that chear'd her soul Those hopes by God were given ; And tho' her body sleeps in dust, Her soul ascends to Heaven.
In memory of MRS. LYDIA, wife of Mr. Joseph Adams; who died July 25, 1825: Æt. 67.
'Tis God that lifts our comforts high, Or sinks them in the grave; He gives (and blessed be his name) He takes but what he gave.
In memory of MRS. MARY ADAMS, wife of Joseph Adams, Esq. who died Jan. 10, 1794, Aged 66. Bles'd are the dead the happy dead Who die in Christ their living head ; They from their painful labour cease And enter into perfect peace.
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Sacred To the Memory of JOSEPH ADAMS, Esq. Who died March 28, 1807; ÆE t. 83.
Death is a debt to nature due Which I have paid and so must you.
In memory of MR. ANDREW ADAMS, who died June 19, 1840, Æt. 71
In memory of MRS. POLLY, wife of Mr. Andrew Adams, who died Nov. 30, 1840, Æt. 70.
Why should we weep for them, who, having won The bounds of man's appointed years, at last Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labours done Serenely to their final rest have passed,
While the memory of their virtues, yet Lingers like twilight hues, when the bright sun has set.
A. Davis Harvard.
KEZIA ADAMS Daught of Mr James and Mrs Kezia Adams died March ye 30th 1769 in ye 7th Year of her Age.
Memento mori
Here lies the Body of Mrs KEZIAH ADAMS the wife of Mr James Adams who departed this Life August the 22ª A. D. 1765 in the 33ª Year of her Age.
To the memy of CAPTAIN DANIEL ADAMS who died February ye 9th 1780: in ye 90th Year of his age. My friends for me pray do not weep, I am not dead, but here do sleep; And here Indeed I might remain, Till Christ shall raise me up again.
Memento mori.
Here lies the Body of Mrs ELIZABETH ADAMS The Wife of Capt Daniel Adams who departed this Life Novbr the 12th A. D. 1764 in the 68th Year of her age.
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From Death's Arrest No Age is Free. Here lies ye Body of Mr BENJAMIN ALLEN Jun™ who died February ye 26th 1770· ÆE tatis 30.
Here lies ye Body of Mrs MARY ALLEN Wife to Mr Benjn Allen Jun" Decd she died May ye 3ª 1773, Ætatis 24.
Death like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away, our Lif's a Dream, An empty tale, a Morning flour, Cut down and withered in an hour.
To the memory of LOVEY ADAMS Daughter of Dr Joseph Adams and Mrs Lovey his wife. She departed Life June 10th 1776. aged 8 months.
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