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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 21, 2012
Caption: Ann Mason's Epitaph
Additional Description: The inscription on Ann Eilbeck Mason's tomb has become unreadable. This bronze plaque repeats the epitaph written by George Mason.

Ann Mason daughter of William Eilbeck of Charles County, Maryland, Merchant, Departed this life on the 9th day of March 1773 in the 39th year of her age after a long and painful illness which she bore with uncommon fortitude and resignation.
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“Once she was all that cheers and sweetens life,
the tender mother, daughter, friend and wife,
once she was all that makes mankind adore,
now view this marble and be vain no more.”
Submitted: May 13, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p474529
File Size: 1.708 Megabytes

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