Smith, Helen

Near this site Are deposited the moral remains of Helen Jane Smith, The daughter of ... Highly gifted with intellectual endowments, With fortitude of mind and sweetness of disposition, She was more eminently distinguished Even in the Bloom of Youth and Beauty By the undeviating rectitude Of her religious, moral and social Duty. With Christian patience and constancy (?) She endured the protracted suffering Of a painful and wasting disease And at length with meek resignation and pious hope Yielded up her spirit to HIM that gave it, on the 4th day of December 1821, in the 24th year of her age.