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 William Jacobs

Title: Mr
Forenames: William
Surnames: Jacobs
Date of Death: 27/11/1903
Burial Date: 01/12/1903
Age at Death Years: 79
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 044 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section F Plot 1702
Grave Description: Upright stone, sloping shoulders, ornate sides, stone surrounds.
Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Badly stained, lichen spots, overgrown in middle.
Old Website Grave ID: 9070

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ELLEN
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM JACOBS
WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS
AT HAZELWOOD,
ON NOVEMBER 7TH 1893
AGED 71 YEARS

WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER" PHIL:1.23.
"HER CHILDREN ARISE AND CALL HER BLESSED" PROV:XXX1. 28

ALSO OF
WILLIAM JACOBS
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED TO BE WITH CHRIST
NOVEMBER 27TH 1903
IN HIS 79TH YEAR.

"YOUR LABOUR IS NOT VAIN IN THE LORD" 1 COR; XV.58
AND WHEN TO THAT BRIGHT WORLD I RISE
TO JOIN THE ANTHEMS OF THE SKIES,
ABOVE THE REST THIS NOTE SHALL SWELL
MY JESUS HATH DONE ALL THINGS WELL."

Photographs:

David Earle
W Jacobs May 2011
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W Jacobs May 2011
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Obituary; Funeral
PDF file: Memorial Slab placed 1904

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