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 Stone No.431

 

Inscription.

 Erected by

WILLIAM HARRIS

merchant

in memory of his mother

HELEN GIBSON

who died 12th November 1816

aged 38 years

his sister HELEN

died 19th September 1818 aged 8

his father

WILLIAM HARRIS

died 12th February 1838 aged 56

his widow

MARGARET GIBSON

died 16th Janaury 1869 aged 78

and of their children

RODERICK

who died at Bahia 26th June 1850 aged 22

and EUPHEMIA wife of WILLIAM VALENTINE

died at Calcutta 18th February 1851

aged 27 years


Original Stone inscription.

Erected by William Harris, Baker, Witch Know, Dundee, in memory of Helen Gibson his spouse, who died XIIIth November MDCCCXVI, in the XXXIXth year of her age.

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