THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 43 1 



The following inscription is placed over the front door of the build- 

 ing : 



" St John's Church 



Organized 1852, 



Erected 1853. 



"The Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth/' 



1 Tim. hi : 15. 



The following memorials, are from the cemetery opposite ; near the 

 entrance is a beautiful white marble stone mounted by a wheel cross : 



Here 

 lyeth the body of 



DAVID SCOTT," 



a priest of the 



Holy Catholic Church 



who entered into rest 



January 3, 1861. 



Jesu mercy. 



We die to live 



AMOS N. RAYMOND, 



Died March 2d, I860. 

 In the 59th year of his age 



My dear children, 

 As you pass by ; 

 Remember you are, 

 Born to die. 



Stephen Hott Sally 



died wife of 



July 15, 1867, Stephen Hoyt, 



In the 79th year of his age. Died 



Sept. 1. 1866, 

 In the 77th year of her age. 



house and that was refused. The Rev. Alfred H. Partridge thereupon determined to 

 hold services in the street if necessary ; at this juncture of affairs Mr. Stephen Hoyt offered the 

 free use of one of his houses and the grove, where the church now stands, in the summer 

 season for the purposes of temporary accommodation, both of which offers were gladly ac- 

 cepted. 



a The Rev. David Scott, who offered himself to God sincerely, and whose short life was so 

 pure, earnest, cheerful and self-denying,, was a native of England and originally a choir boy 

 in Salisbury Cathedral. He was fatally injured by his horse while preparing to start for his 

 usual Sunday morning service at North Salem. See sermon preached in St. John's church, 

 Lewisboro, Feb 1,1861. at the funeral of the Rev. David Scott by the Rev. William H. 

 Williams, Rector of fct. Stephen's church, RidgefLeld, Conn. 



