Ruth
widow of Rev. William Emerson
and daughter of John & Hannah (Upham) Haskins
Bor in Boston Nov 1776 died in Concord 7 Nov 1853
"Blest in every domestic relation, in her father's house
in her own, and in those of her sons, she yet endured lasting trials with courage and patience.
Here grandchildren, who learned their
letters at her knee, remember her as a
serene and serious presences; her sons
regarded her with entire love and reverence
and in the generation to which she belonged
it was said of her that she resembled
a vessel laid up unto the Lord
if polished gold without
and full of heavenly manna within.
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