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To Channing (left), to Phillips Brooks (Right).
cated to the memory of her husband, Giovanni Angelo, Marquis Ossoli,
who "gave up rank, station and home for the Roman Republic and for his
wife and child"; and to that child, Angelo Eugene Philip Ossoli, who
was born in Rieti, Italy, September 5, 1848. Father, mother and infant son all perished together by shipwreck in July, 1850, and the child was the only one of the three whose body was recovered for burial at the foot of this stone. What a long-ago tragedy of the deep it seems now, yet how many hearts were thrilled by it when it occurred!
Edwin Booth
Born November 13th, 1833 Died June 7th, 1893
Below this is inscribed this comforting verse from the prophecy of Jeremiah, which conveys a hint at once of the sorrows which overshadowed the life of the great actor, and of the consolations which sustained him: "I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow." By the side of this stone is a vine-covered cross erected to the memory of Booth's wife, Mary, who died February 21, 1863.
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