What do the letters ae mean on tombstones from Maine, 1800's mean?

Question:we were walking in an old cemetery and noticed that "ae" was written on them. What does it mean?

Answers:
the age at death.
Æ and æ were quite commonly used as abbreviations for Latin aetate or aetate sua meaning, roughly, "at the age of" N years (the implied construction being an ablative absolute); also the genitive aetatis suae, Nth year "of his/her age". In inscriptions and records, the most common use is for the age at death.
all eternity??

Try this link for more information:

http://www.geocities.com/Athen

It's called Last Word or Last Words and has a collection of epitaphs.

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