“Removed from time to Eternity”

How often have you read the gravestone of a young wife and wondered whether she died in childbirth?

Mary Wallace Perry (b. 1787, d. 1812) and her infant daughter died together and are buried together.

The monument inscriptions tell the story.

TO the memory of Mary Wallace Perry & her infant daughter, who were removed from time to Eternity August 22nd 1812, the former in the 26th year of her age, the latter, in the moment of birth. If an assemblage of those amiable & endear- ing qualities that render a female the ornament of her sex, could have warded off the arrows of death She had not died. This stone is erected by the pious affections of the surviving hus- band and parent, SAMUEL PERRY.

Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio