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 Stone No.471/2

 

Inscription.

 1835

Erected

By

FRANCIS GREAT seaman

In memory of his brother

JOHN GREAT seaman

who arrived at Dundee with the

Friendship from Davis Straits

on the 4th Oct 1833 in good health

and was seized with cholera

on the 8th and died the 9th October

1833 aged 27 years

also of his father

ROBERT GREAT Seaman

who died the 10th January 1837

aged 67 years


I left the seas at Gods command,

Where oft I have been toss'd;

But now I fear not rocks nor sands,

Being on a quite safe coast.

Now here I silently doth lie,

Till Christ, my glorious head,

Once with his quick'ning voice shall cry,

and raise me from the dead.