This touching and intriguing epitaph translates:
“To the Greatest and Supreme God. O pious visitor, whoever you may be, you
read on this marble tablet how the dreadful things ordained by Fate may be
shamefully hidden from God. Here in he bloom of life lies buried piety, here
blamelessness of character, here fear of wickedness, here love of Tunis, loving
comfort towards the destitute and the model of virtue of the Swedes. Alas! O
Jacob, you lie fallen. The Arabs (and) Turks lamented, the Jews shed tears. No
difference in religious observance affects the pious. Meanwhile, O Jacob,
wander through the Elysian fields! And may your bones remain uncorrupted
and may you raise up the earth with your funeral pile! To Jacob Rönling, his
mourning parents set up this marble stone. He died on 24 March in the year
1758. He lived 41 years, 4 months, and 13 days. Glory be to God alone.”
He is one of five Rönlings of his family buried in this cemetery, as his father Olaf Rönling was the first appointed Swedish Consul to Tunis.