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Derby Colonial Cemetery
Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Mary  Jane  Canfield


August 2007


In
memory of
Jane Canfield
wife of
Josiah B. Canfield
ho died Feb 23 1832
aged 19 years.
 
Also
Mary Jane
their daughter who died
April 2 1832 aged 8 months.
 
  Can we forget departed friends? Ah no!
  Within our hearts their memories buried lies
  The thought that where they are we too shall go
  Will cast a light o'er darkest scenes of woe,
  For to their own blest dwellings in the skies
  The souls whom Christ sets free exultingly shall rise.


Orcutt, Rev. Samuel,  History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880,
   (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
page 804

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