Memorials
Headstone – Mary Martin
Catalogue ID: 644
Description
A broken piece of sandstone headstone, similar in style to the Hawksworth family stone, commemorating Mary, née Hick (1796-1827), wife of master mariner John Martin, who died aged 31 in 1827. The word 'Sacred' is inscribed in a Gothc Revival script. There is a pious verse inscription. The couple had married at Holy Trinity on 13 August 1815.
Inscription and donor(s)
Sacred
To the Memory of
MARY, wife of JOHN MARTIN,
Master Mariner,
who departed this Life 20:th March 1827
Aged 31 Years.
Farewell, dear friends, A long farewell,
For we shall meet no more:
Till we are rais'd with Christ to dwell
On Zion's happy shore.
