Hooper, Mary

In Latin: In memory of a most excellent woman, a chaste and faithful wife and a provident and prudent mother, Mary Hooper, of unspotted faith and blameless life; who chose the better part, and never shall it be taken away from her. She bore nine children and gave her soul to God in giving birth to the tenth, on 25th September 1658. "But a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." Proverbs XXXI.30. [Translation from John Parker, "Reading Latin Epitaphs", amended.]