Note by Irish Eyes Member
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This is the side of the ESLINGER family headstone. It is inscribed with two of the young children of Mary Jane and Ephriam Duke Eslinger. First is Hannah F. Eslinger and under that William A. Eslinger.
NOTE: Hannah died August 5, 1862, age 4 y 9 m 22 d, then only two months later on September 7, 1862, her younger brother, William, died age 2 y 3 m 24 d.
NOTE: The front of the headstone, with the bible on the top, is inscribed for their mother:
MARY JANE
WIFE OF
E.D. ESLINGER
DIED
DEC. 31, 1871
AGED
44Y. 2M. 7D.
NOTE: The top half of the stone is blank and was likely intended for Mary Jane's husband, Ephriam Duke Eslinger. However, Ephriam remarried, then at the time of his death 18 years later, he was buried beside his second wife, Nancy F. Gates.
Note by Irish Eyes Member
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This is the side of the ESLINGER family headstone. It is inscribed with two of the young children of Mary Jane and Ephriam Duke Eslinger. First is Hannah F. Eslinger and under that William A. Eslinger.
NOTE: Hannah died August 5, 1862, age 4 y 9 m 22 d, then only two months later on September 7, 1862, her younger brother, William, died age 2 y 3 m 24 d.
NOTE: The front of the headstone, with the bible on the top, is inscribed for their mother:
MARY JANE
WIFE OF
E.D. ESLINGER
DIED
DEC. 31, 1871
AGED
44Y. 2M. 7D.
NOTE: The top half of the stone is blank and was likely intended for Mary Jane's husband, Ephriam Duke Eslinger. However, Ephriam remarried, then at the time of his death 18 years later, he was buried beside his second wife, Nancy F. Gates.
Inscription
aged 44y 2m 7d wife of E.D.
Family Members
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