Stone No.357
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EAST SIDE Sacred to the memory of JAMES GRAY ESQUIRE Merchant in and one of the Magistrates of Dundee who died on the 15th Day of July 1826 in the 64th year of his age This monument is erected by his family in testimony to his virtues and their veneration it may be recorded of him that he was an useful magistrate and while in life was respected by his fellow citizens and that on his death general expression of sorrow was manifested
SOUTH SIDE The remains of
JEAN GRAY youngest daughter of the deceased JAMES GRAY ESQUIRE who died on the 27th July 1826 in the 23rd years of her age are also interred here Claimant: William A Flowerdew writer Son in Law to James Gray. Dundee 29 March 1860, permission gratned to the family of the late William Allan Flowerdew, writer, on payment of £5.5/- to erect a monument on a small space of ground immediately to the eastward of the late Bailie James Gray, in terms of minute of a committee of the Town Council of 31 Oct 1859. The base of the monument not to exceed five feet of Eastward from the said Bailie Gray's burying ground, nor be more than five feet from North to South. (441-2) Source:Register of Tombs and Monuments in Dundee Burial Ground, 1832
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