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Tombstone
Inscriptions
Balfour Family Cemetery
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Margaret
Balfour
sister
of
Col.
Balfour
Died
1816
“Ye
that Fear the Lord trust in the Lord.”
Margaret
B Hughes
Daughter
of
Col.
BALFOUR
Born
1775
Died
1820
aged
45 years
“There
remaineth therefore rest
to the people of God”
~
Elizabeth
Dayton
Wife
of
Col.
BALFOUR
Died
1818
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints
~
Andrew Balfour
Son
of
Col.
ANDREW BALFOUR
Born
Oct.
22, 1776
Died
Dec.
31, 1825
“Surely
his salvation is nigh unto them that fear him.”
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The small monument immediately in front of Andrew Balfour’s headstone reads: “Revolutionary Soldier Andrew Balfour 1737- 1782 placed by Colonel Andrew Balfour Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, October 19, 1997.”
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Colonel
Andrew Balfour
A
Revolutionary Memory
Native
of Edinborogh Scotland
Murdered
By A Band Of Tories
At
His Home
March
10, 1782
In
The Day Of My Trouble
I Sought The Lord
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