Oh Woman

Somerset Cemetery has a number of table tombs, including one that is shaped like a coffin. It marks the grave of Edith Hamilton (d. 1832).

Sacred to
The
Memory of EDITH HAMILTON
late consort of the Rev. Samuel Hamilton who
departed this life in the joyful expectation of a
better on the 29^th of
March, A.D. 1832 Aged
33 Years 7 months and 26 days.

Oh Woman
I with thee did fix my lot
Willing to undergo like doom.
When death consorted with thee
Death was to me as life
So forcible in my heart I felt
The bonds of nature draw me to
my own.

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The stone carver’s errors, whether in spelling or poor planning, are interesting: The downsizing of TON in her name; the who squeezed in after Rev. Hamilton’s name; an n inserted with a caret to make consorted.

And is there a missing word? ...in the joyful expectation of a better...  A better what?

  

Somerset Cemetery, Perry County, Ohio