Sacred to the Memory of / JAMES McCURDY / Who departed this life on the / 2nd of August 1844 Aged 44 Years. / Leaving a Wife & Eleven Children / To Deplore his Loss / Weep not for me my wife & children dear / I am not dead but sleeping here / Once I was as you now be / Prepare dear wife to follow me / The day of Judgement cometh near / ... before the Lord appear / into glory one of us shall be / I give ... O God to thee / ... I bore affliction sore / Physicians were in vain / ... giveth ease / And freed me of my pain / ... O Holy .. return / .. of messenger of rest / .. that made thee mourn / and took me from thy midst / R.I.P.