Hezekiah Spruill

Colonel Hezekiah Spruill was born January 22, 1732, and died March 20, 1804, in what is now Tyrrell County, North Carolina in the United States. Spruill was an early planter, a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress and a revolutionary. The following epitaph is found on his tombstone:

My loving friends as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now so you must be, Prepare my friends to follow me.