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I think this may answer the unresolved words. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33787733/benjamin-franklin-payne
I think you’ve got it! Thank you–for the life of me, I couldn’t make it out.
I suspect now, that this may have been a standard epitaph that was found in a stonecutter’s book of epitaphs for people to choose from. Do you agree?
Sounds like a logical explanation to me.
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I think this may answer the unresolved words. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33787733/benjamin-franklin-payne
I think you’ve got it! Thank you–for the life of me, I couldn’t make it out.
I suspect now, that this may have been a standard epitaph that was found in a stonecutter’s book of epitaphs for people to choose from. Do you agree?
Sounds like a logical explanation to me.