RALSTON FAMILY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE

Note.: These two. groups of tombstones were copied by Sarah Benn Sudler 
Whitehill and Timothy Field Beard, in 1948. 

The Ralston Cemetery, on the farm of the Ralstons, near Farmingten, Kent Co., Delaware. 

Amy Ralston, consort of Dr. James Benn Ralston, was born September 29, 1778, 
    and died September 11, 1840, aged 61 years, 11 montha, and 12 days 
Dr. James Benn Ralston, consort of Amy Rogers Ralston, was born September 23, 
    1774 and died January 16, 1848, aged 73 years, 3 months, and 13 days. 
Mary Benn Ralston, died October 25, 1881, aged 78 years, 11 months. 
James Benn Ralston, died December 27, 1810. 
James Benn Ralston, 2nd, died 1828, aged 16 years, 3 months, and 14 days. 
Elizabeth Rogers Ralston, died August 26, 1830, aged 12 years, 4 months, and 16 days. 
John Rogers Ralston, died December 7, 1844, aged 37 years, 3 months, and 8 
    days. 

The Ralston Plot, Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Milford, Kent County, Delaware. 

Sarah B. Sudler, wife of Dr. Joseph Sudler, died Nevember 7, 1802, aged 23 years, 6 months, 
    and 7 days. 
John Ralston, Esq., died August 15, 1803, aged 56. 
Ann Ralston, daughter of John and Mary Ralston, died August 24, 1803, aged 20 
    years, 11 months, and 4 days. 

Tombstone inscriptions as published in The Maryland and 
Delaware Genealogist, Vol. VII, NO. 1, Jan. 1966
Raymond B. Clark, Editor, 

Contributed by Timothy Field Beard, 38 Barrew Street, New York, New York 

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