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

Mrs Elizabeth Jones

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Elizabeth
Surnames: Jones
Date of Death: 31/05/1894
Age at Death Years: 47
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 035 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section E Plot 1379
Grave Description: Headstone with carved shoulders
Grave Condition Description: Leaning badly backwards, lichen top and sides, lettering eroded.
Old Website Grave ID: 7544

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
THE LOVING WIFE OF
WILLIAM JONES
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
MAY 31ST 1894
AGED 47 YEARS
"A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US HAS GONE
A VOICE WE LOVED IS STILLED
A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME
WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED"

ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED
WILLIAM JONES
DIED AUGUST 14TH 1899
AGED 50 YEARS
"WITH PATIENCE HE SUFFERED HIS TROUBLE WAS SORE,
BUT NOW IT IS ENDED,HE SUFFERED NO MORE.
HE SLEEPS. WE WILL LEAVE HIM IN SILENCE TO REST,
THE PARTING IS PAINFUL BUT GOD KNOWETH BEST"

Photographs:

David Earle
W & E Jones May 2010
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
W & E Jones May 2010
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Marriage: Census; Death.
''Details from the St. Thomas's Church marriage register, entry from the 1891 census, and the sudden death report from the IW County Press.''

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