Cornelia DePuyster Puffer

The inscription from her headstone is from a poem written by Robert Burns on the death of his own daughter:

Here lies a rose, a budding rose, / Blasted before its bloom ;

Whose innocence did sweets disclose / Beyond that flower's perfume.

To those who for her loss are grieved, This consolation's given—

She's from a world of woe relieved, And blooms a rose in Heaven.

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(VI) George Drevar Puffer, son of George Shelford, was born Jan. 6, 1827, in Brooklyn; was a grain dealer. He married, April 11, 1855, Eliza Gates Lord of Boston.

Children :

I George Edward, b. Feb. 5, 1854; d. Feb. 16, 1855.

II Frank Delisser, b. May 17, 1855; d. May 17, 1860.

Ill William Lord, b. Jan. 9, 1858.

IV George Drevar, b. May 15, I860; d. Dec. 22, 1861.

V Herman Gates, b. Dec. 19, 1862.

VI Cornelia DePuyster, b. Feb. 23, 1864; d. March 2, 1865.

VII Marion Stagg, b. May 25, 1865.

VIII Charlotte Rawson, b. Dec. 3, 1868.

Bibliographic information:

• Title: Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1639-1915 (1915)
• Author: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
• Subject: Puffer, George, d. 1639; Puffer family
• Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : [s.n.]
• Pages: 424
• Language: English
• Call number: 39999069155586
• Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library
• Book contributor: Boston Public Library
• Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
• Full catalog record: MARCXML
• Page: 343
• https://archive.org/stream/descendantsofgeo00nutt#page/343/mode/1up