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 478 THE HISTORY OF BARKINGTON. Rachel Toogood, d. 1759, age 14 : "Job, Chap. 17, V. II, 12, 13, 14. Rev. Francis Wood, d. Oct. 28, 1875. Aged ^6 years, 6 months and 20 days : " And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea saith the Spirit, they do rest from their labors and their works do follow them." " Benjamin Medbury, who fell in ye battle on Rhode Island August 29, 1779, Bravely fighting for ye Liberty of his Country aged 19 years, i month, and 27 days." John Medbury of Seekonk died 1825, aged 72 : " He was an ofiicer of the American Revolution, And one of the con- stituent members of the first Baptist Church in that Place." " Thomas S. Bean, a patriot of the Revolution, was born in Boston, Mass., 1758, died in Barrington 1839, aged 80 years." " Noah Albert Peck died at Washington of a wound received at the battle of Salem Heights, 1863, aged 34 years." " Here lies all that was mortal of Elizabeth Renuf, Having faithfully served the Rev. Solomon Town- send as housekeeper upwards of forty years, died 1809, aged 70." " George W. Richmond, a member of Co. E, 12th Reg. R. I. V. died at Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. Feb'y. 16, 1863, from wounds received at the battle of Fredericksburg, in his 19th year. Actuated by a sense of duty, he promptly volunteered in defence of our Union and offered up his life for his country." " Thy memory is a shrine of pleasant thoughts." is truthfully written of Sally, wife of Nathaniel C. Smith, and of her husband : " To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." " Capt. Josiah Townsend Smith, aged 34 years, was lost with his vessel in a fearful storm on the Pacific Coast, Feb'y. 20, 1S78."