Wife of Henry Livingston, Jr.; daughter of Rev. Dr. Noah Welles and Abigail Woolsey.
No grave marker has been found for Sarah or her parents.
Bible entry, "My dear wife Sarah was born at Stamford on the 7th of November 1752. Died there on the first day of September 1783, aged 30 years 9 months & 25 days. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
"On the first day of September 1783 my dear wife died at her mother's house in Stamford and was interred in that place. Her funeral sermon was preached by Doctr Timothy Dwight, now president of Yale college. She was the beautiful Sarah Welles & her husband wrote touching Verses on her death.
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex
Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!
---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost
Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.
Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,
Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.
But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound
And vibrate life thro all the deep profound
Her renovated vessel will be seen,
Transcendant floating on the silver stream!
All beauteous to behold! serene she glides
Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;
While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails
And aid her passage with the friendliest gales
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.
No grave marker has been found for Sarah or her parents.
Bible entry, "My dear wife Sarah was born at Stamford on the 7th of November 1752. Died there on the first day of September 1783, aged 30 years 9 months & 25 days. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
"On the first day of September 1783 my dear wife died at her mother's house in Stamford and was interred in that place. Her funeral sermon was preached by Doctr Timothy Dwight, now president of Yale college. She was the beautiful Sarah Welles & her husband wrote touching Verses on her death.
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex
Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!
---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost
Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.
Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,
Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.
But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound
And vibrate life thro all the deep profound
Her renovated vessel will be seen,
Transcendant floating on the silver stream!
All beauteous to behold! serene she glides
Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;
While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails
And aid her passage with the friendliest gales
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.
Wife of Henry Livingston, Jr.; daughter of Rev. Dr. Noah Welles and Abigail Woolsey.
No grave marker has been found for Sarah or her parents.
Bible entry, "My dear wife Sarah was born at Stamford on the 7th of November 1752. Died there on the first day of September 1783, aged 30 years 9 months & 25 days. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
"On the first day of September 1783 my dear wife died at her mother's house in Stamford and was interred in that place. Her funeral sermon was preached by Doctr Timothy Dwight, now president of Yale college. She was the beautiful Sarah Welles & her husband wrote touching Verses on her death.
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex
Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!
---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost
Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.
Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,
Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.
But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound
And vibrate life thro all the deep profound
Her renovated vessel will be seen,
Transcendant floating on the silver stream!
All beauteous to behold! serene she glides
Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;
While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails
And aid her passage with the friendliest gales
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.
No grave marker has been found for Sarah or her parents.
Bible entry, "My dear wife Sarah was born at Stamford on the 7th of November 1752. Died there on the first day of September 1783, aged 30 years 9 months & 25 days. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
"On the first day of September 1783 my dear wife died at her mother's house in Stamford and was interred in that place. Her funeral sermon was preached by Doctr Timothy Dwight, now president of Yale college. She was the beautiful Sarah Welles & her husband wrote touching Verses on her death.
BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex
Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!
---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost
Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.
Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,
Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.
But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound
And vibrate life thro all the deep profound
Her renovated vessel will be seen,
Transcendant floating on the silver stream!
All beauteous to behold! serene she glides
Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;
While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails
And aid her passage with the friendliest gales
Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss
She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.
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