INSCRIPTION TO OTTO BAIJER.
Otto Baijer, a descendant of Bastien Baijer, who signed the capitulation in 1666, bearing the following inscription :— As a last mournful token of affection, This Tablet is erected by Elizabeth Mary Otto Baijer, To the memory of her beloved Father, THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL OTTO BAIJER,
Of Pares Estate, in this Island ; Who died at Philadelphia On the 20th of December, 1835, Aged 54 years. Also to the memory of her Mother, Elizabeth Mary Otto Baijer, Who died in1813, at Dove Hall, In the Island of Jamaica, In the 27th year of her age. Also to the memory of her Brother, Rowland Archibald Otto Baijer, Son of the above-named Samuel Otto Baijer and Mary Elizabeth his Wife, Who died at Pares Estate, in this Island, On the 24th of November, 1837, Aged 25 years and 8 months, And whose remains repose near this spot.
A small, unpretending marble tablet: — Sacred To the Memory of ELIZABETH JANE HARMAN,
Who died on the 16th April, Aged 21 years.
A.D.
1828,
" We have this treasure in earthen vessels."
A pyramidal monument, supported by fluted pillars, and bearing a small sarcophagus, surmounted by two figures of children or cherubs, holding in their hands a scroll, on which is written texts from Scripture.
The inscription is as
follows :— " Supported only by a meek obedience to the decrees of Eternal Wisdom, and a firm trust in the Atonement of a gracious Redeemer, William and Ruth Atkinson, once inhabitants of Antigua, and now of Dominica, as an inadequate evidence of their intense and aggravated anguish for the poignant and crushing trial they have undergone in the loss of both their children, pay this melancholy tribute, when advancing into manly, lively virtue, such as fills the parents' soul with solid comfort. " GEORGE ATKINSON, their first and last spared hope, had nearly reached his twelfth year. This blooming prop of their declining age— when, by a mild and artless truth, joined to innate goodness and suavity