Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
The preservation differences between marble inscriptions {L} and slate inscriptions {R} are no joke. T ] HOMAS J SPRAGUE died in 1864, while Lucia Waterman died in 1821.
It’s difficult to see in the photo, but the poem carved in cursive at the bottom of Lucia’s tombstone says: He is a god of sovereign love/That promised heaven to me/God taught my soul to soar above/Where happy spirits be