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Beautiful sandstone monument with lovely carved funerary drapery, in French and Latin: Ici repose le corps de Pierre Forait décédé le16 de mais l'an 1850 âgé de 19 ans 6 mois. Requiem aeternum dona / ei domine e lux / perpetua ....?... / Requiescat in pace / Amen. [ When I visited this cemetery in 1993, #2 an #3 had a wrought iron fence around them]

Location: Arichat - Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption Church

Reference: Sally Ross Nova Scotia Archives 2013-032 film 26 no.2

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