In a message dated 3/24/99 15:35:47 Mountain 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. > > Joann in Detroit >From Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary: relict: (Lat.) a widow or widower; the surviving spouse. Gary Vincent A RootsWeb Sponsor