Capers
Chapel Methodist Church
Newberry
County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails
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Inscription from the
backside of Kelly Monument as transcribed by Donna
Brummett: Inside of these three solemn and austere graves my three kin were laid bout two and thirty years ago since the very day the stone artist on this gray monument did engrave their names “My father in law Kelly, my mother in law and my wife Florida” There ye doth lie! There thou oh wife dust lie! In the gloom of winter, summer, spring. But aut that word gloom bring thee back in the light of thy vigor again when thou and I walked in the street on Octob’r nine nineteen hundred and twenty years when thou carried Baby Paul with cap o’er ear in the train and held and held them in thy gentle arm when I left food clothing, kiss to thy charm. Bidding thee farewell thy trip from City Mills, Montana to Chapin, SC with smiles. Home went I began quickly selling in a few years all and each belonging sold, took the road southeast for going to thee. Florida dear to Wis., Millwakee, but no further. Thee to reach I did fail b’cause got sick locked in confinement–jail. Was unable write thee for many years. But when got well out, I wrote thee. Soon th’ once babe-boy young man. Paul came said: “She died!” With tears cried I cried for thou loss that live ‘n memory, I cried for thee, thy upright virtuous parent, whose earthly lives had been saintly as saints and whose righteous and preciously high souls as Godly spirits who never die.–for them God beseeched from death to rise happily keep them alive in blessed Paradise while there though shall be waiting my soul to fly after I arrange it whenever I die. They’ll carry–bury by the side of the grave’s Dust to rest my dust I: tonshd careye This monument the muse shall consecrate to fame midst the planets inscribed in Florida’s name. |
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