
213 – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Aya and Josiah Franklin
Josiah Franklin and Abaya, his wife, lie here in turn. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty-five years. Without an estate, were any gainful employment. By constant labor and industry, with God's blessing, they maintained a large family comfortably. I never knew either of my father or mother to have any sickness, but that of which they died. He was a pious and prudent man. She, a discreet and virtuous woman. Their youngest son, a manfilial regard to their memory, places this stone.
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