Sacred / to the memory of / ELIAS YERKES, / who died Jan' 16th 1799, / in the 69th year of his age. / Also / REBECCA YERKES, his wife / who died Nor 30th 1820, / in the 85th year of her age. / Their life exhibited / Examples of Piety, / Affection of Parents, / Sympathy of Friends, / Humility of Christians / And their death, / The fortitude of Saints, / And the ___ of Faith.
Sources
Davis, W. W. H., History of the Hart family of Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1867, privately printed, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Appendix, page 9.
Leach, Josiah Granville, Chronicle of the Yerkes Family with Notes on the Leech and Rutter Families, Private Circulation, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, MDCCCIV, page 48
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