Deacon Joshua Smith

The Smiths were another of the early families in this (Rehoboth's) community. Deacon Joshua Smith was prominent at the very beginning of the settlement. He died Dec. 10, 1743, in the fifty-first year of his age. On his stone is thig epitaph:
"Though a little while here
He had his shear
Of sorrow, grief & pain;
His Sole we Trust
Is with the Just
Where it shall ever reign."

"In Memory of Mrs. Mary Smith, wife of Joshua Smith, who died April 3d, 1795, in the 95th year of her age."
Others are Thomas Smith (87) and his wife Rebecca (76).
"In Memory of Deliverance Smith, late Wife of Mr. Samuel Smith, who died Dec. 23, 1775, in the 43d Year of her Age."
"My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last Trumpet's joyful Sound
Then burst the Chains with Sweet Surprise
And in my Savior's Image rise."
"In Memory of Mrs. Sarah Smith, late Wife of Mr. Ebenezer Smith, died April 9, 1762, in ye 25th Year of her Age"

Source:

http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/rehoboth_cem1.htm