The inscription on his tomb can no longer be read.  Close to the base of the right and east gable is the rocky foundation of a vault, in size 15x18 feet; it is now a grassy mound with several cedar trees growing upon it. Near the center of this mound is a gray stone tablet much defaced by time, and it was only after repeated efforts that I have finally succeeded in making out the inscription, which is as follows:

Here lyeth the body of Daniel McCarty,

who departed this life the fourth of _____ 1724,

in the forty-fifth year of his age.

He was endowed with many virtues and good qualifications,

but the actions proceeding from them bespeak their praise.

 

Here also lyeth the body of Thaddeus McCarty,

youngest son to Daniel McCarty, Esq.,

who died the 7, of February, 1731,

in the 19, year of his age.

 

Near this place likewise is the body of Penelope,

wife to Daniel McCarty, second son of Daniel McCarty, Esq.,

and daughter to Christine Higgins, Gent.,

who departed this life the 26, of March, 1732,

in the 19 year of her age, with one child.

Elizabeth Pope McCarty.

There has been recently unearthed in the ruins of the [Daniel] McCarty vault parts of the tombstone of his wife, who was Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Humphrey Pope and Elizabeth Hawkins.  She was the widow of William Payne, by whom she had four children.  She afterwards married Daniel McCarty, Esq., to whom she bore eight children, four sons and four daughters, and died at the early age of thirty-nine years.  The broken pieces of the stone were put together and an unsuccessful attempt made to photograph them.  ALL THAT COULD BE FOUND OF THE INSCRIPTION IS HERE GIVEN.

h the body of Elizabeth

er of Humphrey Pope Gent. by

is wife first the wife of

ne Gentleman to whom sh

ns and two daughters & las

Daniel McCarty, Esqr. to

was married the 19, of Oct

are four sons & four dau

Barbara A the 30 of Nove

                       7^th of Novem

                         f March

                       1705

                       1709 Bu

                 709 Sarah        20

       O and Thaddeus the

       IDER 1712   She was born

    of June 1677 & depa

    e 21^st and was entomb

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year of her A

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Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth

Daughter of Humphrey Pope Gent. by

His wife first the wife of

William Payne Gentleman to whom she

had [?] sons and two daughters & lastly

to Daniel McCarty, Esqr. To whom she

was married the 19, of Oct 1698

are four sons & four daughters

Barbara Ann the 30 of November 1700

Dennis the 7^th of November 1703

                       of March

                       1705

                       1709 Bu

                1709 Sarah           20

       O and Thaddeus the

       IDER 1712    She was born

the [?] of June 1677 & departed

the 21^st and was entombed

March 1716 in the

39^th year of her Age

Fixt my faith            com

lisht church of England

ans fo

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