Monday, June 14, 2010

Tombstone


Sacred
To the Memory
of
Adam Allyn Comedian
Who
Departed this Life
February 15 1768

This Stone Was Erected
By the American Company
As a
Testimony
of their
Unfeignd Regard

He Posesed
Many good Qualitys
But as he was a man
He
Had the Frailties
Common to man's Nature


St. Paul's Churchyard, Wall Street, NYC

Here is a news article about the headstone,
found in the Lewiston Evening Journal, November 11, 1899,
followed by a life insurance advertisement running alongside the news item.