Tombstone Inscription
Tabitha Agard, 1750 - 1818
Smithville Flats Cemetery, Chenango Co., NY
The Chenango American of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], prints the following inscription copied from a tombstone in the town of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY] in the year 1869:
"Tabitha Agard lies here, she was the wife of Joseph Agard Esquire who was one of the first settlers of this town A.D. 1798, she died Sep 9 A.D. 1818 aged 68 years. This woman after many years of the greatest toil in this once howling wild, to which she together with her family suffered much by hunger and nakedness, was taken with lingering illness which lasted several years. She suffered much pain of body and depression of spirits, yet she knew to whom she had believed, and waited with patience the coming of the Lord. She was an obedient wife, a loving mother, chaste, and a keeper at home. She was a suckerer of many in the settlement of this country. Both Indians and whitemen have often received food from her hand. She instructed her children to be always obedient to their father and to fear God every day, who was attentive to prayers, bowing the knee to the Lord Jesus, thus leaving a glorious example for all her sex to be obedient to their own husbands, teacher of good things, chaste keepers at home. She had four sons that cleared the ground where she and all this great family of the dead lie."
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