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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Binstead Cemetery

Mr William Harwood

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Harwood
Date of Death: 28/03/1904
Age at Death Years: 85
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG B017 A2
Plot Number: Binstead Old Cemetery Row L Plot 48
Grave Description: Arched headstone with decorative rope edging, raised text panel with engraved lettering, matching ivy leaf motifs at hips near base of stone
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Heavy lichen cover on stone, some weathering and sentiment text very faded
Old Website Grave ID: 10982

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM HARWOOD.
WHO PASSED AWAY
MARCH 28TH 1904.
AGED 85 YEARS.

"SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS.
SAFE ON HIS GENTLE BREAST.
THERE BY HIS LOVE O'ERSHADED.
SWEETLY MY SOUL SHALL REST."

ALSO JANE
THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED FEBRUARY 16TH 1905.
AGED 84 YEARS.

"HOW SWEET THE NAME OF JESUS SOUNDS
IN A BELIEVER'S EAR.
IT SOOTHES HIS SORROWS, HEALS HIS WOUNDS
AND DRIVES AWAY HIS FEAR."

HER END WAS PEACE

Photographs:

Kate MacDonell
W & J Harwood November 2020
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

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