Tombs of the Dundee Howff
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Stone No. 1385

 

Inscription.

1815. Erected by William Thomson, Taylor, Hawkhill, and Isobel Hazel his spouse, in memory of Alexander Anderson, her son, who died April 12th 1815, aged 25 years.

Though in the dust we laid his head,

Yet, gracious God, thou will not leave,

His soul for ever with the dead,

Nor lose his body in the grave,

Revised by James Forbes, Flaxdresser, Dundee.

Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is reproduced with kind permission.


1815 William Thomson, Tailor, Hawkhill

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