The second tablet of the grave-stone bears the following inscription:
HERE RESTS,
IN THE SOIL OF OUR UNITED COUNTRY,
HEINRICH WALDFRIED,
BORN MAY THE 10TH, 1800;
DIED JULY THE 22D, 1871.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Throughout, the translator will, according to the German
custom, use the word "bride" to designate a woman who is only
betrothed.]
[Footnote 2: This name means: Lizzy, the huntress.]
[Footnote 3: Director or governor of the district or department.]
[Footnote 4: Feast commemorative of the dedication of a church.]
[Footnote 5: I am waiting (dialect).]
[Footnote 6: _Guten Ort._]
[Footnote 7: A member of the Burschenschaft, the name of an association
of the students of Germany, formed in 1815, and having for its object
the political regeneration of their Fatherland.]
THE END.
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