CO-SMCY-0555

Record Date: 
17 May 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Sacred

to the memory of

the Revd Thomas Gordon

Minister of the Independent Church

in this town

who laboured for nearly ten years with – and diligence preaching the Glorious Gospel of the one blessed God

Who on he faithfully and affectionately shared that man is a fallen guilty creature and requires that all sufficient atonement and righteousness of the Redeemer which is able to save...the dutiful sinners that come to God by him. This alone was the ... of his rejoicing in the hour of his...

And through this alone he looked for the enjoyment of a blessed immortality.

The members of the church here erected this stone to testify their value for his useful and exemplary life from which he was suddenly cut off

Feb 22nd 1818 aged 36 years...

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.954246388889
Longitude: 
-7.853125
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Gordon
Date of death - day: 
22
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1818
Age: 
36