epitaph revenge

Mary Ann Weems

Godmanchester, England

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To the Young of both Sexes

This Stone is erected by public Subscription over the remains of MARY ANN WEEMS who at an early age became acquainted with THOMAS WEEMS formerly of this Parish this connextion [sic] terminating in a compulsory Marriage occasioned him soon to desert her and wishing to be Married to another Woman he filled up the measure of his iniquity by resolving to murder his Wife which he barbarously perpetrated at Wendy on their Journey to London toward which place he had induced her to go under the mask of reconciliation May the 7th 1819 He was taken within a few hours after the crime was committed, tried and subsequently executed at Cambridge on the 7th of August in the same Year

Ere Crime you perpetrate survey this Stone

Learn hence the God of Justice sleeps not on his Throne

But marks the Sinner with unerring Eye

The suffering Victim hears and makes the Guilty die

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makes you wonder what should be on your epitaph, don't it?