Verbal/Material Lore – Gravestone Epitaph
“Thomas P. Hill”
English
Thomas P. Hill Tuck Drive Graveyard – Hanover, New Hampshire, United States October 28th, 2017 |
Informant Data
Died on August 3rd, 1865, aged 85 years.
Contextual Data
Epitaph is from Proverbs 10:7. The full proverb serves as an omen to people, claiming that those who are virtuous will be have blessed deaths and the names of those who are filled with vice will perish. The full proverb reads: “The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall perish.”
Text
“The memory of the just is blessed.”
Peter Tiktinsky, 21 101 Hulls Farm Road, Southport, CT 06890 Hinman Box 4569, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Dartmouth College Russian 13 Fall of 2017 |