CW-STMA-0029

Record Date: 
6 January 2020
Graveyard: 
St. Mary's
Exact wording of epitaph: 

THE CARLOW YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 

ASSISTED BY SOME FRIENDS, 

ERECTED THIS TABLET 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

EDMUND TROUTON, 

CURATE OF THIS PARISH FOR TWO YEARS 

AND FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY 

A FAITHFUL FRIEND, AN EARNEST AND LOVING PASTOR

HIS ANXIOUS DESIRE WAS  TO WIN SOULS TO CHRIST

AND THE LORD BLESSED HIM BY HIS WORK

… HEARD THE WORD OF LIFE AT HIS LIPS AND BELIEVING LIVED

HE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS JUNE 9TH , 1859, AGED 28 YEARS

Grave location
County: 
Carlow
Latitude: 
52.837018179998
Longitude: 
-6.9331262000167
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Edmund
Surname: 
Trouton
Date of death - day: 
9
Date of death - month: 
June
Date of death - year: 
1859
Age: 
28