Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Eli Biggs

Title: Mr
Forenames: Eli
Surnames: Biggs
Date of Death: 25/03/1871
Age at Death Years: 21
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 018 B2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section F Plot 862
Grave Description: Upright stone with surround, ornate top and bottom stars and flower roundells.
Grave Condition Description: Names and dates clear but sentiment fading.
Old Website Grave ID: 4130

Inscription:

IN
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
ELI BIGGS
THE BELOVED SON OF
URIAH AND ANN BIGGS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MARCH 25 1871
AGED 21 YEARS

"ONCE THE BIG UNBIDDEN TEAR
STEALING DOWN HIS BLOOMING CHEEK
TOLD IN ELOQUENCE SINCERE
TALES OF WOE HE COULD NOT SPEAK
BUT THESE DAYS OF WEEPING O'ER
PASSED THIS SCENE OF TOIL AND PAIN
HE SHALL FEEL DISTRESS NO MORE
NEVER, NEVER WEEP AGAIN
SHINE IN THE LIGHT OF GOD
HIS LIKENESS STAMPS MY BROW
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH
MY FEET HAVE TROD
AND ALIGN IN GLORY NOW."

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
E Biggs (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
E Biggs (Sept 2007)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Accident; Death.
''Entry from the 1861 census, the accident at the new Parish Church and the death notice and brief obituary from the IW Times.''
PDF file: Brief report from the Hampshire Telegraph

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