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Headstone with half-round top. The front edge of the entire face of the stone is decorated by a rope design. At the centre top is a deeply inscribed circle containing a cartouche, inscribed faintly "WATCH"

In affectionate remembrance of
Caroline wife of
Frederick WALKER
born January 15th 1857
died June 20 1885
Dear friends and children my life is past
you dearly loved me to the last
grieve not for me but pity take
and love each other for my sake
In the midst of life we are in death

Footstone with half-round top, similar in design to the main stone, but much smaller.

C.W.
1885

[BR: "1885 23 Jun WALKER Caroline 27yrs North Leigh" Frederick Walker remarried just a year later, in August 1886, to Leah Harris. He died in 1937, and Leah died in 1938. They are buried together in plot A98. ]


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