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On the other is written: -- "To x x x x Eleanor Parke Lewis Grand daughter of Mrs. and adopted daughter of General W. Reared under the roof of the father of his country this lady was not more remarkable for the beauty of her person than for the superiority of her mind."
On the first of these monuments there was also this additional inscription:
If the possession of every virtue that adorns or dignifies her sex could have warded off the stroke of death she would have been im-mortal, and those who mourn her [?] and are consoled by the reflection that those virtues seemed better to fit her for the