Epitaph: His grandfather was an officer and his father a private in the war of the revolution, deceased and rested in the war of 1812 and fought under the stripes and stars at Williamsburg chippeidby(?) and Bridgewater at the close of the war. He settled in Parkman Ohio on the 15th of February 1818 He married Nancy McMeller a lady of Scottesh decent and of rare accomplishments. Of their children:

Caroline died July 15 1825 aged 1 1/2 years,Winfield 18th 1825 aged 3 years Leidisr(?) 20th 1825 age 6 1/2 years. The wife and mother died July 26, 1825 age 33 years. These all died of epidemic and were burried in Parkman. The only remaining child was adopted into the family of the honorable Robert B. Parkman and the heart broken father in the haning(?) left Ohio September 11, 1826 to be among his kindred in his kindred place.

"He sleeps his last sleep the has fought his last battle but we think he'll awake to glory again"

The following reference indicates that an epidemic of scarlet fever occured around 1825
http://www.garlitz.org/familytree.html

Late in the season of 1814, after the men had returned to their homes--their term of enlistment having expired -- they set to work to put up a small school-house, of logs. Abner H. Fairbanks, a returned soldier, living in Parkman, was engaged to teach, and this marked the opening of educational enterprise. This school-house was situated just west of the Sugar-loaf, on land then owned by Simon Burroughs, Jr., and since by his brother, Jacob. Tradition does not furnish a roster of all the scholars, nor an account of the sum paid the teacher.
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/books/1880Pion.htm