Nancy Manney French

(1821-1886) This grave tells a star-crossed love story.

Nancy fell in love with her tutor, Charles French, but her father opposed the romance. French left to make his fortune but promised to return for Nancy. He went to the Arizona territory and eventually became a chief justice. He wrote Nancy, but the postmaster --a friend of Nancy's father-- intercepted the letters. Years later, the postmaster finally told Nancy what he'd done.

Now an old man, Charles French returned to Beaufort but found Nancy dying of 'consumption.' He married her. Nancy died a few weeks later.