Name/Title
Lower Burying GroundEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.25a-bDescription
Two photographs found on page 25 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side."
Photograph a is of the two stones [2013.5.4.24b] and part of the wall in which they are embedded. A caption says the wall is on the south side of the Lower Burying Ground and is part of the John Dedier House. It interprets the inscription as "Memen // do Mory," or "Memento Mori, Remember [you have] to die."
Photograph b is if the stone panel installed at the Lower Burial Ground by the Site and Relic Society of Germantown in 1903. A caption says the oldest tomb stone in the burial ground is that of Joseph Coulston, February 1, 1707-08.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
