An Epitaph A Day - November 15

Keeps Death's Spectre Away

Jaffrey

(A free negro, Amos Fortune, settled in Jaffrey more than one
hundred years ago, though warned off as a possible pauper, and
left one quaint bit of history — his estate, to the town. Part of it
bought the communion service still in use (1895).

On the gravestone of his wife is this inscription:

Sacred to the memory of Violate, by purchase the
Slave of Amos Fortune, by marriage his wife, by
fidelity his companion and solace, and by his death
his widow.

Source:

Darling, Susan. Quaint Epitaphs. Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. 1902.