Some interesting epitaphs

[cemetery1]

Looking to contact MGCTP please.
If anyone can help would be grateful.
Thanks

[radstockjeff]

Here's one which I came across in the churchyard of Old St Andrew's Church, Holcombe in Somerset. This was a plague village in 1348 and the surviving inhabitants moved about a mile to the south and started again. But the Church remained and continued to be used until a new one was built c1900 in the "new" village.
The churchyard however is still used for burials. One of the tombs is the family one of Captain R F  Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) with an appropriate memorial.
However, this one in particular caught my eye for its sheer simplicity.

[Lisajb]

The Maids Grave, Winterbourne, Bristol.

A reminder that childbirth was risky in times past  dedicated to Hannah, wife of Robert Fouracre, who died in 1829.

"Thirty years I was a maid
thirteen months a wife
four hours I was a mother and then I lost my life,
Behold my friend and cast an eye
then go thy way prepare to die
repent with speed make no delay
in my prime was called away"

[Viktoria]

In a very remote Shropshire graveyard attached to the Lord’s Hill Paruculsr Baptist Chapel.
A remote relative ,little girl. Selena Mansell.
“ Was to my parents
   As a rose,
   A flower sweet and good,
   But death you see,
    Has called on me,
     And nipped me in the bud,”

Another to a miner ,killed when the rope lowering the cage down the shaft broke .
He and another man were in a basket affair,cleaning the inside of the shaft from I suppose horizontal  stalactites.,.
“ Not a single shaft shall hit
 ‘Till the God of love see fit”.

Quite inappropriate really.

Viktoria.

[Enumerated]

This is one of my favourites :

In ever loving memory of our darling baby Blanche Rose who fell asleep Feb. 15th 1898 aged two years.
Adieu sweet babe short was thy stay
Just lent awhile and called away
Thy angel face we all did see
But oh how soon deprived of thee
Sleep on dear babe and take thy rest
God calleth those he loveth best