Three hundred years later, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants placed a handsome sarcophagus to honor and receive these dead from their nameless graves, which time and accident had disturbed, and the Massachusetts Tercentenary Commission set aside a park reservation on the crest of the hill, to surround the monument. It was formally dedicated September 8, 1921. On the side facing the street, the inscription reads: “This Monument marks the First Burying Ground in Plymouth of the Passengers of the Mayflower. “Here under cover of darkness the fast dwindling company laid their dead, levelling the earth above them lest the Indians should know how many were the graves. “Reader! History records no nobler venture for faith and freedom than that of this Pilgrim band. “In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and cold they laid the foundations of a state wherein every man, through countless ages should have liberty to worship God in his own way. “May their example inspire thee to do thy part in perpetuating and spreading the lofty ideals of our republic throughout the world!” At one end of the memorial is inscribed: “The Bones of the Pilgrims found at various times in or near this enclosure and preserved for many years in the canopy over the Rock were returned at the time of the Tercentenary celebration and are deposited within this monument.” “Erected by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants A.D. 1920.” On the opposite end of the monument is: “About a hundred sowls came over in this first ship, and began this work which God in his Goodness hath hithertoe Blessed. Let his Holy Name have ye praise.” BRADFORD 1650. THOSE WHO DIED IN THE FIRST WINTER On the opposite side of the monument, facing the sea, is a list of the Pilgrims who died in the first winter, as follows: “of the hundred and four passengers these died in Plymouth during the first year: John Allerton Mary, first wife of Isaac Allerton Richard Britteridge Robert Carter John Carver and Katherine, his wife James Chilton’s wife Richard Clarke John Crackston, Sr. Sarah, first wife of Francis Eaton Thomas English Moses Fletcher Edward Fuller and his wife John Goodman William Holbeck John Hooke John Langmore Edmund Margeson Christopher Martin and his wife Ellen Moore and a brother (children) William Mullins Alice, his wife Joseph, their son Solomon Prower John Rigdale and Alice, his wife Thomas Rogers Rose, first wife of Myles Standish Elias Story Edward Tilley and Ann, his wife John Tilley and his wife Thomas Tinker his wife and son John Turner and two sons William White Roger Wilder Elizabeth, first wife of Edward Winslow Thomas Williams”