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Health/Sickness/Mortality Homepage | Letters, Diaries, Newspapers, etc. | Excerpts: The United States Primer, H. & E. Phinney, Cooperstown, NY, 1820. p. 46

Background: The United States Primer was "stereotyped, printed, and sold" by H. & E. Phinney, Cooperstown, NY, 1820.  The ability to read the Bible constituted one of the main reasons to learn to read.

"Our lives begin with trouble here
Our life is but a span;
And cruel death is always near,
So frail a thing is man. 
Then sow the seed of grace whilst young,
That when thou com'st to die,
Thou may'st sing that triumphant song,
Death, where's thy victory!"

"I, in the burial place, may see 
Graves far shorter than I;
From death's arrest no age is free;
Young children too may die."

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Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.

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