Councils and church authorities are quite strict about what they will and will not allow these days. There are some magnificent and quirky memorials all over the country that our forebears left behind, but our recently departed will have small and bland gravestones. No skulls and crossbones...
I thought I'd share an inscription from Lindfield in Sussex that I spotted when searching for my husband's ancestors' graves that would never be allowed now:
I thought I'd share an inscription from Lindfield in Sussex that I spotted when searching for my husband's ancestors' graves that would never be allowed now:
In
Memory of
RICHARD TURNER
who DIED November 15th
1768 aged 21 years
Long was my Pain, great was my Grief
Surgeons I'd many but no Relief
I hope through Christ to rise with the just
My leg and Thigh was buried fust
Memory of
RICHARD TURNER
who DIED November 15th
1768 aged 21 years
Long was my Pain, great was my Grief
Surgeons I'd many but no Relief
I hope through Christ to rise with the just
My leg and Thigh was buried fust
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