Wednesday’s child: Gideon Bradley

In
memory of
GIDEON,
son of Hentry and
Mary Bradley
born Sept^r 25^th 1842
died Octo[^r] 4^th 1842
aged 9 days.

I take these little lambs,
said He,
And lay them on my breast.
Protection they shall find
in me,
In me be ever blest.

The epitaph is from the hymn “Thy Life I Read” by Samuel Stennett (b. 1727, d. 1795).

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Glick-Brick Church-Hoy Cemetery, Fairfield County, Ohio