It can be interesting looking at old  gravestones and this stone intrigues me.
Trying to work out whose gravestone this was difficult as the inscription on the back has worn away and although there is an inscription along the sides and top the name has eroded but apparently she had seven children. 
One suggestion is that the figure in a skirt which appears to be floating above is probably the woman’s husband wearing the fashionable costume of an 18th century and a wig.  He seems be holding a heart and is resting on two hour glasses which symbolise the transience of life and two cherubs or putti hold up the drapery representing the Theatre of Life. There are other symbols of life and death but I have no idea what the shape resembling a sort of boat means. 

(Gravestones 3)

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