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.”

Gilt-bronze girandole
c. 1850
Three gilt-bronze girandoles on a white marble bases. Each has a gilt-bronze deer with flowers sits below the girandole on the marble base. Two of the girandole's have two candle holders while the large one has three candle holders. On each candle holder are clusters of prisms.
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