Adah M. Burroughs, New Hope Cemetery, Wetmore, Colorado

Adah M. Burroughs, New Hope Cemetery, Wetmore, Colorado

Born July 26th, 1866

Died November 20th, 1885

Aged 19 years, 3 Months and 24 days. 

There is a faint inscription faded at the bottom. A little hard to decipher, but here’s what I believe it says. 

“One by one my friends are gathered to that near and shining shore. In the bloom of youth and beauty hath my daughter gone before.”

Daughter of Henry Mark Burroughs and Sarah Loretta Bruce Burroughs, buried in the same cemetery. Henry passed away in 1917, then Sarah in 1922. Adah left behind siblings Ira, Anna, Virgil, Lillian and Russell. 

Surely the mother wrote that beautiful inscription. Tragedy of lost youth. 

Rest easy young lady. You are not forgotten. 

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