In Memorial Stranger, who threw the city of the dead with thoughtful soul and feeling heart may tread.

Pause here for a moment. Those who sleep below with careless ear never heard a tale of woe.

Four sisters fair and young together rest in saddest slumber on earth's kindly breast,

torn out of life in one disastrous hour.

The rose unfolded and the budding flower life did not part them.

Death might not divide. They lived, they loved, they perished,

side by side.

Over doom like theatre let gentle pity shed the softest tears that mourn the early fled.

For whom lost children of another land, this marble raised by weeping friendship's hand.

To us, to future time remains to tell how even in death they loved each other well.

So read the inscription of a memorial at Mount Moriah Cemetery

in remembrance of Abina, Cecilia, Hannah and Ruth Gale.

Four sisters.

Four ballerinas from London who tried. and Ruth Gail. Four sisters.

Four ballerinas from London who traveled the world before they met their untimely death in the

city of Brotherly Love.

The Gail sisters were scheduled to perform Shakespeare's The Tempest over 150 years ago on September 14, 1861, at the Continental Theater on Walnut Street.

The theater no longer stands, but in the 1800s,

William Wheatley, an actor and stage manager,

thought he could bring the dwindling theater back to life.

He invested time, money, and elbow grease into that theater,

getting it ready for the performance featuring the Gail sisters. But before they even

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