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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St. Johns Cemetery

Mrs Emily Campbell

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Emily
Surnames: Campbell
Date of Death: 30/11/1943
Age at Death Years: 89
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG SJ002
Plot Number: St John's Cemetery Plot 2 Row 4 Grave 12
Grave Description: Upright arched headstone with low shoulders and tapered at base. Inset IHS motif at centre top and lead lettering. Surrounding kerbstones.
Grave Condition: Fair
Grave Condition Description: Some lichen cover on stone, smaller text on lower half of inscription quite difficult to read in places.

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
CHARLES CAMPBELL
LIEUTENANT, ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS,
DIED SEPTEMBER 2ND 1907,
AGED 66 YEARS,
THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF EMILY CAMPBELL

"PEACE PERFECT PEACE."

WEEP NOT DEAR WIFE FOR I'M AT REST,
I SUFFERED LONG IN THIS WORLD OF PAIN,
AND EVERY CARE I DID OBTAIN,
DRY UP THOSE TEARS AND WEEP NO MORE,
I AM NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE.

ALSO OF HIS WIFE
EMILY,
DIED NOVEMBER 30TH 1943,
AGED 89 YEARS.

LOST ON EARTH BUT FOUND IN HEAVEN.

Photographs:

Arthur Williams
C & E Campbell May 2019
Photographer: Arthur Williams

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