The Reverend Thomas Curtis, D.D.

[East Face]:

Erected

to the Memory

of

The Reverend

Thomas Curtis, D.D.

by his affectionate

and

devoted pupils.

[West Face]:

He was born

May 10, 1797 in the town

of Wisbfach England.

And was lost in the wreck of the

steamer North Carolina,

bound from Baltimore to Norfolk,

Jan'y 29th 1859.

[South Face]:

Our teacher,

ever faithful and affectionate,

one ...

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