St Giles in the Wood
Anonymous Gravestones
Anonymous Gravestone at St Giles in the Wood
St Giles in the Wood
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| The churchyard of St Giles in the Wood has a significant number of anonymous gravestones dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Several are Grade II listed. Similar anonymous stones can be found at Yarnscombe. |
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Dear wife my life is gone and past My love for you it long did last. So no more sorrow for me take But love our Children for my sake. With patience to the last he did submit And murmur'd not at what the Lord thought fit He with a Christian courage did resign His Soul to God... |
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"IN Blooming days it Pleased God By Death to smite me with his Rod. Therefore Dear Friends content with rest And hope in Christ I am ever Blest." |
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Dear friends lament no more for we nor grieve when this our grave you see rejoice in hopes that we do rest and with our Saviour Christ are blest a worthy young man Snatch't from his parents In the prime of youth... |
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God fixt my days near Ninety Years to be did my Childrens Chldr Children see My Glass was rund God took me hence away To reap with Pleasure ye Eternal Day |
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Like as the flowers soon fade away So was our time with you to stay Now Parents dear lament not in vain When Christ doth call we all shall meet again |
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I have left my Wife and Parent dear I have left three Children to her care I hope she will take care of them Until that we do meet again When we shall pass to that Eternal shore Where death nor time shall never part us more |
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Farwel my dear and loving Wife My Children and my friends I hope in Heaven to see you all When all things have an end Farewel my Children to the world Where you must yet remain The Lord of Host be your ____ Till we do meet again. |
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Death suddently cut off her thread of life A tender mother and a virtuous wife Grieve not for me I'm only gone before When trumpet sounds shall meet again and never part no more |
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Tho in my Youth and blooming Days God took me hence as He did please And here I lie now in the Dust In hopes to rise amongst the Just |
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Death in my Prime Gave me a fall Here I must lay till Christ doth call When God had freed me from all Pain ________ hopes to live |
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Children forbear to grieve for me I'm gone but where you soon will Be Therefore improve each moment well That so you would with Christ may dwell |
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