Ministers' Row Cluster 4 | Old Burial Hill

Ministers' Row Cluster — 4

Rebecca Wolderidg (1800)
Death like an over flowing Stream, Sweeps us away our life’s a dream, An empty tale, a morning flower Cut down & wither’d in an hour. But O! how oft thy pow’r appears, And cuts off our expected years: Thy Wrath awakes our dread: We fear the pow’r which Strikes us dead.

By 1800, the urn and willow had become a common motif.

Portraits Carved in Stone
Mrs. Anna Barnard (1774)	Rev. William Whitwell (1781)

Mrs. Anna Barnard (1774)

OMNEM crede Diem tibi diluxisse
supremum
Sacred to the Memory of the pious
MRS. ANNA BARNARD
The worthy and exemplary
Consort of the late Venerable &
REVEREND JOHN BARNARD
Who for many years was the
faithful Pastor of the first
Church of Christ,
in Marblehead.

In all the Virtues of a Life of Faith
and Holiness,
She shone below, respected & belov'd;
Until matur'd for higher Spheres,
She set to Earth, rever'd & lamented;
But rose upon the Horizon of perfect
endless day on the 24th of Augt 1774: Æ 78.

The holy Triumph of her Soul,
Did Death itself out-brave,
Left dull Mortality behind,
And flow beyond the Grave.

Rev. William Whitwell (1781)

Memento mori
IN memoriam erectum
REVERENDI DOMINI GUIELMI WHITWELL

ecclesiæ primæ Christi apud Marblehead
Pastoris—Scriba enat in regno cælorium peritus-
Deum precatus eft ardenter, apte & cum So-
lemnitate—Sacrse plura breviter continentes &
concitandis animis, idonæ erant-Totum huma-
num Generis complexus est, & charifsime pal-
riam habuit, quæ eum paperit-Exemplum pi-
etatis & christianæ virtutis præclarum: &, inter
hanc vitam & ejus labores, Novembris 8° AD 1781
Ministerii 19, Ætatisq 45, tranquille Animam emisit.

Erected in memory of ye Revd WILLM. WHITWELL,
Pastor of the first Church of Christ in Marblehead–
"He was a scribe well instructed unto the kingdom of
Heaven"–In his addresses to God, he was fervent, perti-
nent & Solemn–His discourses were evangelical, com-
prehensive & Pathetic–He loved all mankind; and
was most Strongly attached to his country–He set
a bright example of piety & Christian virtue; &, in
the midst of life & of his labours, he calmly expi-
red, on the 8th of November 1781, in the 19th year
of his ministry, & 45th of his Age. ~