Walter Hackett

(Taken from nc-chap.org/chap/graves/pdfs/intro_inside.pdf p.4)

Rev'd. Walter Hackett
Sub hoc cippo conduntur reliquiae
Reverendi uiri c ualteri Hacket qui
titulo missionary insignitus pastoritiu
Minus apud apoquinomen ses cirei
Quinquennium feliciter ex creuit

Natus Fraserburgi in Bamll Scotia
Provincia ex vetus ae generosa hac
Familia ortus
Fuit vita incorrupta ingenio lenifectore
Fido in oficio fungendo summa industri
Maltis Elle bonis flebilis occidtt
Nulliflebilior quam chare conjugi
Qui in memoriam digni viri.
Hocce monumentum sepulcrale
Condere ibuil.

Obiit nonis Martjis anno MDCCXXXIII
Aetatis XXXIIII

Note: Translation taken from Holcomb.

Under this stone are buried the remains of
the Reverend Walter Hackett, who while a
Missionary, discharged with great success,
the duties of the Pastoral office at
Appoquinimy about five years. He was
born in Frasersbury, in Bampf, a province
of Scotland, and was descended from the
ancient and respectable family of Hackett.
His life was blameless; in spirit, meek,
in office faithful; in labors abundant.
He died lamented by many good, but by none
more than his beloved wife who is pleased
to erect to the memory of her worthy husband
this sepulchral monument. He died March 7,
1733, aged 33 years.