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CO-RCNY-0224
Record Date:
18 April 2013
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
ERECTED BY
STEPHEN O LEARY
IN MEMORY OF
HIS BELOVED WIFE
ELLEN
WHO DIED DEC 11 1862
AGED 24 YEARS
SCARCE ANOTHER HAD SHE BEEN
WHEN DOVELIKE UP TO HEAVEN SHE FLED
AND GLANCING BACK TO EARTH AGAIN
HER CHERUB SON TO BLISS HAD SPED
ALSO
HIS FATHER JOHN
WHO DIED FEB 13 1849
AGED 60 YEARS
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. AMEN.
Memorial Type:
Headstone
Number of people commemorated:
3
People commemorated:
Name:
Stephen
Surname:
O Leary
Name:
Ellen
Surname:
O Leary
Date of death - day:
11
Date of death - month:
December
Date of death - year:
1862
Age:
24
Relationship with first person:
Wife
Name:
John
Surname:
O Leary
Date of death - day:
13
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1849
Age:
60
Relationship with first person:
Father
Notes:
It is possible there is a 4th person commerated although no names and details appear. In the last line of the verse it
says ; " Her Cherub Son To Bliss Has Sped " so possibly an infant child ?
