In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”
"The Old Mill" by George L. Clough
c. 1870
Oil painting "The Old Mill" by Auburn and Cayuga County Artist George L. Clough
Water-powered mill with water flowing over the overshot waterwheel. Some clapboards and shingles missing on building. Pigeons perch on roof. A young boy with a fishing pole walks in foreground at right.