EAST SIDE
Sacred to the memory of
JAMES GRAY ESQUIRE
Merchant in and one of the Magistrates of Dundee
who died on the 15th Day
of July 1826
in the 64th year of his age
This monument
is erected by his family
in testimony to his virtues and their veneration
it may be recorded of him
that he was an useful magistrate
and while in life was respected by his fellow
citizens
and that on his death
general expression of
sorrow was manifested
SOUTH SIDE
The remains of
JEAN GRAY
youngest daughter of
the deceased
JAMES GRAY ESQUIRE
who died on the 27th July 1826
in the 23rd years of her age
are also interred here
Claimant: William A Flowerdew writer Son in Law to James Gray.
Dundee 29 March 1860, permission gratned to the family of the
late William Allan Flowerdew, writer, on payment of £5.5/- to erect a monument
on a small space of ground immediately to the eastward of the late Bailie James
Gray, in terms of minute of a committee of the Town Council of 31 Oct 1859. The
base of the monument not to exceed five feet of Eastward from the said Bailie
Gray's burying ground, nor be more than five feet from North to South. (441-2)
Source:RT
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