Esther Doyle Read, Copyright 2004

New 22 May 2004

Grave stone of Samuel Cooke Read and Mary Ann Woolverton in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey. This stone appears to be a replacement stone for the originial stones. A second stone for Mary sits adjacent to this stone, see photograph below (photograph by Esther Doyle Read, March 2003).

Original stone for Mary Ann Read, next to the newer stone in Union Brick Cemetery. The original stone is inscribed:

Our Mother
Mary A.
wife of
Samuel C. Read
died Oct. 31 1874
aged 50 yrs, 6 m
& 22 days.
Text Revelations
Through our [illegible]
And our eyes are [illegible] now,
Should we mourn [illegible] has [illegible]
Are we never [illegible]

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Grave stone of Samuel and Mary Ann (Woolverton) Read's daughter Ruth Ann Read Wildrick and her husband Nicholas. Ruth and Nicholas are buried near Ruth's parents in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey. Their stone was photographed in March 2003. It had fallen off its base and was laying on the ground (photograph by Esther Doyle Read, March 2003).

Nicholas and Ruth Ann Wildrick's son, John Read Wildrick is buried in the same area of Union Brick cemetery with his parents. There is no stone for John's wife, Carrie Dell Raub. She died in 1974 and it is not known where she is buried.