His headstone bears a striking resemblance to a stone for Capt. Joshua Wood in Pine Grove Cemetery (Leominster).
His headstone bears a striking resemblance to a stone for Capt. Joshua Wood in Pine Grove Cemetery (Leominster).
Inscription
Tombstone:
ERECTED
in memory of
JOHN PAYSON,
who died 31 May A.D. 1804,
in the 27 year
of his age.
The young man faileth,
his strength ceaʃeth,
he dieth,
and is no more;
but his hope is in God.
Draw near, my friends, of youthful boom;
O think on me, and know your doom.
_____________
Footstone:
J. P.
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