Headstones & Inscriptions

Information collected from the Churchyard & Cemetery

INSCRIPTION

Sacred to the Memory of
ELIZABETH CONGDON
daughter of Daniel & Eliza Congdon
of Week Orchard in this parish
who departed this life
February 4th 1858
Aged 6 years
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Also of
JOHN CONGDON
son of the above
who died March 4th 1858
Aged 4 years

Though your fond parents saw with many a sigh
There much loved children droop and die
Yet this consoling hope to them is given
They only died on earth to live in heaven

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(Churchyard)

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50º 45'03.84N  4º 30'01.39W      OS: SX 237977      Elevation: 142m

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