Born "Green Spring"
Born "Green Spring"
Inscription
This Monumental Marble,
In Remembrance of all that could endear ye living and make
the dead lamented ... for Benevolence and Truth,
Is Placed Here,
Over the Remains of an Excellent Person . . . ial is
better and more lastingly recorded . . . sed Tes-
timonials of the Wise and Good.
The Filial Piety of Her earlier years was an earnest of
That Social Excellence which all Her afterlife went
to adorn the wife, the Parent, and the Friend.
......................................Generosity,
. . . a best motive. An unbounded charity . . ts,
Only Guide Virtuous Prudence, gained Her as many
Friends, as she had acquaintance.
Humility
. . . st sense of Her Maker and Herself . . . from
Whence it arose, preserved Her from the Envy usually
attendant
On Her Exalted Station,
And procured Her the undissembled affections of all Ranks,
Who admired in Her Goodness without Ostentation,
Elevation without Pride and without Meanness Conde-
scension even to the lowest of Her Inferiors.
Such was
MRS. LUCY GRYMES,
Relict
Of the Honourable John Grymes, Esqr.,
(Whose body reposes near this of His beloved wife.)
Daughter,
Of the Honourable Philip Ludwell, Esq.,
Parent
Of a numerous and deserving Family.
On the 3d of March, In the Year of our Lord 1749,
And in the 52 Year of Her Age, the Divine command
summoned Her to receive the Rewards of a well spent life.
She obeyed with ready and devout Resignment;
And, having given an Illustrious Pattern
Of Living Well
She taught the next great lesson,
How to Die.
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