. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. eligion here before either profit or popularity, so, I pray you, go on. I rejoice that you thus honor God with your riches, and I trust you shall be repaid again double and treble in this world, yea,and the memory of this action shall never die. Dedication of the Sermon. South side : THOMAS CUSHMAN. Son of Robert, died -X- December, MDCXCI, Aged nearly -LXXXIV- years. For more than -XLII- years he was Ruling Elder of the First Church in Plymouth, By whom a tablet was placed to mark h
. Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts : its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs. eligion here before either profit or popularity, so, I pray you, go on. I rejoice that you thus honor God with your riches, and I trust you shall be repaid again double and treble in this world, yea,and the memory of this action shall never die. Dedication of the Sermon. South side : THOMAS CUSHMAN. Son of Robert, died -X- December, MDCXCI, Aged nearly -LXXXIV- years. For more than -XLII- years he was Ruling Elder of the First Church in Plymouth, By whom a tablet was placed to mark his grave on this spot, Now consecrated anew by a more enduring memorial. MARY, widow of Elder Cushman, and daughter of Isaac Allerton, Died-XXVIII- November, MDCXCIX, aged about-XC-years, The last survivor of the first comers in the Mayflower. East side: — Erected by The descendants of Robert Cushman In memory of their Pilgrim Ancestors, XVI- September, MDCCCLVIII. The stone originally erected over the grave ofElder Thomas Cushman was removed in 1858 tomake room for this memorial, and now stands a little. distance from its first position. It is of purple Welsh slate, and is in a remarkable state of preservation. The inscription is as follows : — Here lyeth buried ye body of that precious servant of God,Mr. THOMAS CUSHMAN, who after he had served his gen-eration according to the will of God, and particularly the church of Plymouth for many years in the office of a ruleing elder fellasleep in Jesus Decmr. ye 10, 1691 & ye 84. year of his age. There is always eager inquiry from the visitors toBurial Hill for the grave of the Nameless Noble-man, the hero of Mrs. Jane G. Austins famous his-torical novel of that title. We find it near the Cush-man monument. The stone has the small figure of anhourglass at its top, under which appears the winged fex
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