Hello Ziggy,
John Cunningham and Jane Heggie (born Ceres, Fife) were married 21st Dec 1866 in Whitburn, West Lothian, Euphemia was born 15th Dec 1867, John 17th Jan 1870, Peter born 6th April 1872 and Robert born 19th Feb 1874. John died 26th September 1876 of Spine Disease, recorded as a Pauper aged 31, he was buried in Whitburn Cemetery Section C Lair 30 on 29th Sept 1876. The burial was Private, which means someone paid for the lair and his burial, normally a Pauper would have been interred in a Common grave.
Jane Heggie remarried James Forsyth (Born St Ninians, Stirlingshire) and had a further two children before 1881, Mary B Forsyth born abt 1879, and Joanna H Forsyth abt 1880, both of these children were born in Shotts, Lanarkshire. The 1881 census has the family living in Messrs R Addie & Sons Houses (Miners Rows) in Shotts. Euphemia died 10th Aug 1883, aged 15 of Typhoid Fever, she was living in West Benhar (Harthill), she was buried on the 11th in Section C Lair 30, her stepfather signed her death certificate.
The Lair information shows that Mary Meek, wife of James Purdie, a miner of Benhar died 28th July 1877 of Cholera aged 40, Susan Breeton Purdie died 15th Jan 1883 of Cancer aged 45, she was living at Woodend, Armadale. Robert Cook is also (according to the Burial Records) interred in this lair, he died 26th Jan 1957, aged 67, he was living at 37 North Street, Armadale.
The Purdie family owned the lair at Section C Lair 29, and there are 7 Purdie names recorded as being buried there as well as three Combe's making 10 in total, too many for one Lair - the Purdie family in Lair 29, were the family of Mary Meek Purdie recorded in C30. There is a headstone erected on C29, but he only names on it are the Combe family. I've attached a photo so you can see this is the only headstone in that area. Well I tried to attach a photo but apparently the file is too big, I've attached a photo of Section C instead, which is a circle and a lovely part of the cemetery.
Hope this helps in some way ... Cheers ... Meg