In a message dated 3/24/99 5:35:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jagirard@aol.com writes: << Could someone fill me in on the term "relict" on a tombstone. This is how it is used. "Sacred to the Memory of Mary Haines Relict of Elias Haines. Daughter of Robert Ogden. Born July 3, 1778 - Died May 5, 1852." Is this another way of saying of saying wife? I have never heard the term. This is from a tombstone in the First Presbyterian Churchyard in Elizabeth, NJ. I have seen this on several markers. >> I believe the term "relic" (sp) means widow. I actually heard it for the first time a few weeks ago while at the archives in Trenton. One of the workers there brought up the term. Kathleen