GA-STNL-0185

Record Date: 
20 May 2024
Exact wording of epitaph: 

To the Memory of Major John Cathcart Meacham who Died July 8th 1828 Aged 47 Years.

Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
53.272916388889
Longitude: 
-9.0534047222222
Additional details
References: 
For Major Meacham see The Galway Weekly Advertiser. July 12th. (1828). (Obituary and a description of his military funeral which was attended by the entire 64th Regiment under Major Dixon). See also Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1849), "Sarah Meacham, abode Dominick Street, buried November 21st 1849, aged 62 years". This person may be related to John Cathcart Meacham. For his wife see The Galway Express. February 6th. (1864). "Marriage", (to Kerin, Edmund) "... February 1st. at the Roman Catholic Church, Marlborough St., by the Rev. William Purcell, Edmund Kerin Esq. to Isabella A. Cathcart Meachem, widow of the late Capt. John Meachem, 86th Regiment and daughter of the late Mark A. Lynch, of Nile Lodge." The Galway Vindicator. February 6th. (1864) also gives the exact same details as in the reference above.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MEACHAM SACRED
Notes: 

A large Rect. R.S. with Inc'd. Ins.. The upper left hand comer of the stone is missing.