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 Henry Samuel Pearce

Title: Mr
Forenames: Henry Samuel
Surnames: Pearce
Date of Death: 06/11/1927
Burial Date: 09/11/1927
Age at Death Years: 79
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 012 A2/A3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Cemetery Section S Plot 2720a
Grave Description: Tall headstone with heavily carved shoulders and hips, engraved text within panel, square section kerb surround
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Has been very overgrown with ivy, now cleared sufficiently to read, but ivy still adorns the top.
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Bereavement Services records

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MATILDA
THE DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF
HENRY PEARCE
WHO WAS SUDDENLY CALLED AWAY
ON SUNDAY JUNE 7TH 1903
AGED 63 YEARS

A LIGHT IS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD HAS GONE
A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED
A PLACE IS VACANT FROM IN OUR HOME
WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED

AFFLICTION SORE SHE LONG TIME SHE BORE
PITY SICIANS WERE IN VAIN
TILL DEATH DID EASE AND GOD DID PLEASE
TO AID HER OF HER IN PAIN

WE MISS THEE WHEN THE MORNING DAWNS
WE MISS THEE WHEN THE NIGHT RETURNS
WE MISS THEE HERE, WE MISS THEE THERE
DEAR MOTHER WE MISS THEE EVERYWHERE

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
HENRY SAMUEL PEARCE
DIED NOVEMBER 6TH 1927
AGED 79 YEARS
"AT REST"

Photographs:

M&H Pearce (Aug 2022)

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