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Old Cemeteries Society
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Plot: | H-19E-69 | |
| Name: | Date of Birth DD/MM/YY |
Date of Death DD/MM/YY | |
| Thistle, William Henry Thistle, Ernst Thistle, Mabel |
June 20, 1879 Dec 20, 1891 Sept 20, 1888 | ||
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Direction Monument Faces: | Materials: | |
| 3 | Gray Granite, White Marble | ||
| Faces Inscribed: | |||
| 3 | |||
| Plot Type: | Family | Males: | 2 |
| Condition: | Fair | Females | 1 |
| Style of Monument/Gravesite: | |||
| Large (3-plot sized) ground ledger with white marble headstone. | |||
| Site Remarks: | |||
| Headstone on top center of ledger. | |||
| Inscription: | |||
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In Memory of WILLIAM HENRY Infant son of WILLILAM + ALICE THISTLE Who Died June 20, 1879 Aged 1 Month ---+--- This lovely Bud so young and fair Called hence by early doom. Just came to show how sweat a flower In Paradise would bloom Foster | |||
| Description and Condition: | |||
| Large ground ledger (489 cm W x 245 cm L) raised
13 - 20 cm off ground with a white marble headstone on ledger top. Curbing is grey granite (12.5 cm border). The W curbing has moved slightly and one section is out 2-3 cm. Ledger top is covered with grass and in center W side is a white marble straight-shouldered tablet-type headstone mounted on gray granite base (51.5 x 26 x 19 cm high) set into cement foundation. Cement foundation appears to be quite recent. Tablet has been cleaned (47.5w x 7.75 thick x 99 cm high). Stone has numerous cracks and chips (especially W side). Inscription 'Foster' the stonemason. Top center of stone (E face) is a weeping willow beside a casket. The top left and right sides of stone have Triguetras formations along with center of top. Stone appears quite stable, clean and level. | |||