Ringwood Manor Historical Cemetery

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY

OF

JOHN HEWITT JR.

SON OF JOHN AND ANN HEWITT

BORN IN NEW YORK

FEBRUARY 7th 1817

DIED SEPTEMBER 4th, 1870

IN THE FIFTY FOURTH

YEAR OF HIS AGE

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FOR MANY YEARS

HE WAS TRUSTEE OF THE

PUBLIC SCHOOL

OF THE 5th WARD IN

THE CITY OF NEW YORK

WHERE HE WAS BELOVED

BY THE YOUNG

RESPECTED AS A GOOD CITIZEN

AND AS AN UPRIGHT MAN

GENTLE JUST AND TRUE