Grave of Elizabeth Weed, Wife of Alfred Billings Street, ca. 1993
The following sentimental verses were written for the Cemetery's consecration ceremony in 1844. On that occasion, poet Alfred Billings Street read his composition to the crowd assembled in a small, natural amphitheater overlooking one of the Cemetery's scenic lakes. The poem was reprinted in the local newspapers in the following days, as well as in two collections of Street's poetry and in Henry P. Phelps' book, The Albany Rural Cemetery - Its Beauties, Its Memories.
