Ida Bell Brunk
born September 9, 1862 [calculated from age at death]
died January 19, 1868

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dearest Ida, thou hast left us.
Here thy loss we deeply feel.
But ’tis God that hath bereft us.
He can all our sorrow heal.

[The epitaph comes from a transcription of the cemetery done by Dorothy V. Masters in 1967, when the stone was more readable.]