CO-CTCH-0203

Record Date: 
25 September 2013
Graveyard: 
Christ Church Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN

MEMORIAM

OF

WILLIAM HENRY SMITH

AGED 26 YEARS

STATION MASTER, BANDON

LOST HIS LIFE ON DUTY

THE 19TH APRIL 1875

ALSO HIS MOTHER

M.E. SMITH

DIED OCTOBER 27TH 1899

AGED 79 YEARS

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

WHICH DIE IN THE LORD

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.747426388889
Longitude: 
-8.7370030555556
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
William Henry
Surname: 
SMITH
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1875
Age: 
26
Name: 
M.E.
Surname: 
SMITH
Date of death - day: 
27
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1899
Age: 
79
Relationship with first person: 
mother
Notes: 

A wheel of one of the train carriages smashed William's leg by accident.  Dr Tanner from Cork cut the leg off but he died after 12 hours leaving a wife and two young children.  The funeral was large with 58 masons in attendance in white gloves and black and blue ribbbons