Abel Moulton (1809) Headstone
Headstone of Capt. Abel Moulton, died October 23, 1809 at 33 years of age. Castleton Federated Church Graveyard, Castleton, Rutland County, VT. Scanned with an Artec Leo 3D scanner by Joseph Kinney in cooperation with Castleton University, Spring 2023. The stone reads as follows: Sacred to the Memory of Capt. Abel Moulton, who died Oct. 23d 1809 in the 33d year of his Age. [In coffin] Memento Mori. [Passage at bottom of stone] Where is our friend so lately seen, Whose worth had rais’d our love so high, Gone like the dew that deck’d the green, Fled like the rainbow of the sky. Here his pale form unseen will rest, Till Christ with pomp and power shall come; Those virtues wake that warm his breast, And raise him Glorious from the Tomb.
Transcription from: John M. Currier, comp., Proceedings of the Rutland Historical Society, 2 (No publishing location: John M. Currier, 1881), 130.
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