Gravestones of Ruth Sprague & Grandma Moses

I opened the book I had ordered, Body Snatching by Suzanne M. Shultz, and the frontispiece was a photo of a child's gravestone in Old Maple Grove Cemetery in Hoosick Falls, New York, which indicts those who stole her body:

Ruth Sprague

dau. of Gibson & Elizabeth Sprague

died Jan. 11, 1846; aged

9 years 4 mo's & 3 days.

She was stolen from the grave

by Roderick H. Clow & dissect-

ed at Dr. P. M. Armstrong's office

in Hoosick N.Y. from which place

her mutilated remains were

obtained & deposited here.
"Her body dissected by fiendish Men

Her bones anatomised,

Her soul we trust has risen to God

Where few Physicians rise."

I searched in vain for a photo of Ruth Sprague's grave, but did find the e-mail address of a female descendant of Dr. Armstrong who had posted a message about wanting to repair the stone so the last line remains visible.

By coincidence, my friend Ellen Holloway grew up in Hoosick Falls! I just called her and she hadn't heard the Sprague story, but had told me that the town's most famous resident was Anna Mary Robertson, better known as Grandma Moses (1860-1961). She, too, is buried at Maple Grove.