GA-STNL-0101

Record Date: 
18 November 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Sacred To The memory of U Col. Geo. Lenox Davis CB Insp1 Field offr of the Liverpool Recruiting District (& late of the 9th Reg1) Died April 14«> 1852 Aged 61 years For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272646388889
Longitude: 
-9.0533913888889
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
DAVIS
Notes: 

A large R.S. with an Inc'd. Ins. some of which is in Italics. This stone is badly cracked and flaking. There is a narrow incised border around the slab. The last three lines are from 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, Verse 14. See also No. 289, a plaque in the church which commemorates the same person. Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1852), "Lieut. Col. G.L. Davis C.B., Inspecting Field Officer of the Liverpool District, late of H.M. 9th Foot, abode Newtown Smith, Galway, buried 17th April 1852, aged 61 years".