. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. STONE OF MRS. MARY NELSON Playmate of George IV., who had charge of the PhiladelphicPowder Magazine in the War of 1812 East Side. TOMB OF GENERAL JOHN STEELETrustee of the church and hero of the Revolutionary War East Gravel Path. ? ?:TiI ~;% ^^ I^SK^V \ if/ ~7JP!P . The Churchyard and Its Dead. 319 The reader of this book has noticed often after thename of a man, in the text and in the title matter forthe illustrations, the phrase who is buried in thechurchyard. It is a great thing
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. STONE OF MRS. MARY NELSON Playmate of George IV., who had charge of the PhiladelphicPowder Magazine in the War of 1812 East Side. TOMB OF GENERAL JOHN STEELETrustee of the church and hero of the Revolutionary War East Gravel Path. ? ?:TiI ~;% ^^ I^SK^V \ if/ ~7JP!P . The Churchyard and Its Dead. 319 The reader of this book has noticed often after thename of a man, in the text and in the title matter forthe illustrations, the phrase who is buried in thechurchyard. It is a great thing to have a glorioushistory, and a Colonial Church that stands where itwas originally erected, but the greater glory still is inhaving around the church, sleeping their last sleep,the men who made the history, and who reared thechurch and nourished it. Duffield and Smith andBrainerd, and almost all of the Ruling Elders wholived and died in the service of the church, and agreat number of the trustees, are buried in the oldchurchyard. Many families can count three generations buriedside by side. A notable instance of this is in the Farrlot, near the south wall. Here lie grandparents, pa-rents, children. No family has ever been a greaterblessing to Old Pine Street. John C. Farr was anactive ruling elder for over fifty years. He lived
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