Stone No.1323
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1821 Erected By GEORGE WATSON Confectioner and baker Dundee and ELISABETH MITCHEL his spouse in memory of their family viz MARGARET who died 7th Dec 1820 aged 2 years the above GEO. WATSON died 4th April 1847 and E. MITCHELL died 15th Novr 1853 also to the memory of ELIZABETH WATSON TENNANT Granddaughter of the above GEORGE WATSON and daughter of THOMAS TENNANT Confectioner who died 8th Jany 1857 Why do we mourn departed friends, Or shake at deaths alarm ? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, To call them to his arms. Are we not tending upward too, As fast as we can more ? For would we wish the hours more slow, To keep us from our love.
Source: The Book of the Howff, ©Libraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.
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