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Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 1 p.494
April 2, 1849.
MR. URBAN,
A COPY of the inscription of the gravestone of the Southey
family in the north-west corner of the churchyard, seems
almost essential to the completeness of the very beautiful
account of Crosthwaite Church with which two of the late
numbers of the Magazine have been enriched. I send it you
therefore as it was transcribed in August, 1839.
The Lord gave and the Lord / hath taken away, blessed /
be the name of the Lord.
Sacred to the memory / of / EMMA SOUTHEY, / who departed in
May, 1809, aged / 14 months.
And of HERBERT SOUTHEY, who / departed April 17, 1826, / in
the tenth year of his age.
Also of GEORGE FRICKER their / uncle, aged 26, 1814.
Also of ISABEL SOUTHEY their / sister, who departed on the /
16 of July, 1826, aged / 13 years.
Also EMMA SOUTHEY their / mother, who departed / in Nov.
1837, aged 63.
Requiescat in pace.
I remember the sexton pointing out the seat which the poet
occupied in the church, where, according to him, he sat
absorbed in meditation, and abstracted from everything but
the course of the service in which he was taking part.
Yours, &c. J.H.
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