Gravestones / Tombstones !

[GRACELAND]

 Hi again ,
               Things wrote on grave stones !!
               Have you when searching (none of us walks around grave yards do we  ) came across any strange things wrote on them
          As in the cause of death ? ect or is this common  ??
       Theres one in a cem by me say killed local on the railway !!
          and was it common to write on both sides of a gravestone ??
                                                                                                               

[clr1979]

Theres one at Hunslet Cemetery nr Leeds.
On the back it reads something along the lines of:-

"If you wish to lead a healthy life, abstain from intoxicating drinks, then you may live out the days that were alloted to you".

A dead alcoholic maybe?

[GRACELAND]

 
        HI again heres a grave stone i found in st Andrew church yard in the village of PRESTIGNE ,
                        To the memory of Mary Morgan
                        who young and beautful,endowed
                        with a good understanding anddisposition
                        but unenlightend by the sacred truth of
                        christianity become the victim of sin and shame
                        and was comdemned to an ignominious
                        Death on the 11th April 1805,
                        For the murder of her b****** child

                        Rous'd to a first sense of guilt and remorse
                        by the eloquent and humane exertions of her benevolent
                       judge ,Mr Justice Hardinge ,she underwent the
                       sentence of the law on the following Thursday
                       with unfeigned repentance and a furvent hope
                       of forgivenefs through the merit of a redeeming
                       intercefsor .

                       This stone is erected not merely to perpetuate the
                       remembrance of a departed penitent but to remind
                       the living of the farilty of humannature when
                                 unsupported by religion ....
       

                        Thomas Bruce Brudenell Bruce Earl of
                                          AILESBURY...



                    So take note 

[GRACELAND]

  Another in same church :
                    of a
                      17 year old William Wilson Johnson
                        Buried in 1823
                       My death was so suddeney quick
                          occasion'd by a horse's kick;
                           My parents dear do not repent
                            my soul so quick to heven sent ..
       

 So get looking around for these s old stones some are very interesting 

[GRACELAND]

   Come on there must be more stones like this about ,as i found these two in one ch yard there has to be more , come on and share them with us   

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi there

With over 10,000 inscriptions in my data base (8000 of which have been transcribed by my own hand) - how many do you want me to write out?

Chris in 1066Land

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi again

June 5th 1820 - All Saints, Hastings.
Here lies an only darling boy
Who was his widowed mothers joy
Her grief and sad affliction prove
How tenderley she did him love

In childish play he teased a mule
Which rag'd its owners angry soul
And thro whose cruel blows and spleen
This child so soon a corpse was seen

This mother now is left to mourn
The loss of her beloved son
Tho sighs and tears will prove in vain
She hopes in Heaven to meet again

PS - The owner of the mule was charged at Lewes Assizes with 'feloniously kiling and slaying' the boy, but he was acquitted.

Chris in 1066Land

[GRACELAND]

  Amazing really that would cost a fortune now all them word s ,mined you it must have cost a bit then 

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi

How about this one from 1683:

Youth was his age
Virginity was his state
Learning his love
Consumption his fate

or this from 1775 - (Actual cause of death was Smallpox)

Kind reader stop & drop a tear
For him who now lies sleeping here
A husband, loving parent kind
A friend and neighbour good you'll find
His widow left in great distress
With six small children fatherless
But may God of his goodness send
To them a kind assisting friend.

Chris in 1066Land