Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Photograph

Grave of William Smith & Family

Brighouse Parish Church



The grave of William Smith & family at Brighouse Parish Church

Epitaph


In
Remembrance of
CAROLINE,
DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND
AND SMITH, WHO DIED FEBR 19TH
1853, AGED 8 YEARS.
   
ALSO OF
THE ABOVE NAMED WILLIAM SMITH
LATE OF BRIGHOUSE, WHO DIED
JUNE 12TH 1862,
AGED 42 YEARS.
   
GRIEVE NOT DEAR WIFE BUT BE CONTENTS,
FOR I WAS ONLY TO THEE LENT:
IN LOVE WE LIVED, IN PEACE I DIED:
THOU ASKEDST MY LIFE, BUT 'TWAS DENIED.
   
ALSO CLARA, DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED NOVR 14TH 1864, AGED 1 YEAR
AND 10 MONTHS.
   
ALSO EMMA, DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED JANY 2ND 1865, AGED 12 YEARS.

[Taken in August 2013]



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