AN EPITAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 4

AN EPITAPH.

Was anything more curious than an inscription lately deciphered at Milford, in the State of New Hampshire. Many pathetic life stories Eure written on marble in the shady little bury jug-grounds so characteristic of every old New England town and city. Indeed, there arc few existing records that give a better, clearer insight into the life of the old Puritan stock that colonised the place. The stone that marks the last resting-place of Caroline Cutler is of unusual interest. There are many that are older, but few that exemplify so simply the spirit of revolt against the tyranny of a religious society that even as late as the nineteenth century still cherished the bad traditions, although it had long ocooed to exercise the prerogatives, of a State church. Fortunately that society has lived through those tames to a, better condition.

The text and form of this curious inscription are as given here:CAROLINE H., wife of Calvin Cutter, M.D. istry & Baptist Churches as follows : Sept. 2S. 1853, ASt.. 33. She was accused of Lying in . church Meeting bv the Rev. D. D. Pratt & Dcac. Albert Adams and condemned by the church unheard. She was reduced to poverty by'Deac. William Wallace. Whon’ivn ex parte council was asked of the Milford Baptist Church hy the advice of their 'committee George Raymond, Calvin Avcrlll & Andrew Hutchinson they voted hot to receive any communication upon the subject. The Rev. Mark Carpenter said - ho thought as the good old Dcac. Pearson said we have got Cutter and it is best to keep him down. The intentional and malicious destruction of her character and happiness as above described destroyed her life. Her last words upon the subject were that the truth of the iniaaitv will come out.