Date recorded: 9/9/09
Inscription
In
Memory of
MARY ANN JORDAN:
who departed this life
April 10TH 1865
Aged 3 years and 3 months
SLEEP LOVELY BABE AND TAKE THY REST:
GOD OFT FIRST CALLS WHOM HE LOVES BEST
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Earliest date (of death): 1865
Type of monument: Pointed headstone
Dimensions (in millimetres):
a) monument/headstone: height: 750 breadth: 530 thickness: 65
Orientation of monument/headstone: West facing
Material: Sandstone
Condition: In place, leaning slightly forward, mostly sound, small broken area at bottom right
Number of surfaces bearing inscription: 1
Technique/s used for inscription: Incised
Condition of inscription: Slightly worn
Name of mason: COTTRELL COLUM
Notes: leaning but firm in ground. Final ‘s’ of ‘months’ less deeply incised (or worn?)
‘I’ of ‘In’ on inscription elaborated