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JOB HODSON AND HIS FOUR WIVES by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: HERE RESTS IN PEACE, REBECCA ANNE
Last Line: AND HIM, THE HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
Here rests in peace, Rebecca Anne,
Spouse of Job Hodson, Gentleman.

Here also Henrietta Grace,
Destined to lie in this same place.

And Jane, who three brief years of life
Did bear the honoured name of wife.

Here also Caroline (once Dove).
And him, the husband of the above.



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