LD-SPNF-0079

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

(EAST FACE)

SACRED TO

THE MEMORY OF

JAMES WATERS

JUNR WHO DEPARTED

THIS LIFE APRIL 7 1871

AGED 2 (12?) YEARS              

 

‘EVEN SO FATHER FOR

SO IT SEEMED GOOD

IN THY SIGHT’                                                                                                                                                           MATTHEW CH XI V 26

NOT GONE FROM MEMORY

NOT GONE FROM LOVE

BUT GONE TO HIS

FATHER’S HOUSE ABOVE

 

THIS MONUMENT

WAS ERECTED

BY AFFECTIONATE FATHER

 JAMES WATERS OF

NEWTOWNFORBES

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(SOUTH FACE INSCRIPTION)

ALSO TO THE MEMORY

OF HIS WIFE ELLEN SOP

-HIE WATERS DIED DEC.

16th 1874 AGED 60 YEARS

(NORTH FACE INSCRIPTION)

        SACRED

TO THE MEMORY

OF JAMES WATERS

WHO DEPARTED

THIS LIFE 29th OF

AUGUST 1880

 

 ‘NOT GONE FROM

 MEMORY NOR FROM

 LOVE BUT GONE

 TO HIS FATHER’s

  HOME ABOVE

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.76521
Longitude: 
-7.83689
Number of people commemorated: 
3
People commemorated: 
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Waters Junior
Date of death - day: 
7
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1871
Name: 
Ellen Sophie
Surname: 
Waters
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1874
Age: 
60
Relationship with first person: 
Mother
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Waters
Date of death - day: 
29
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1880
Relationship with first person: 
Father - presumably