Sandcrab Blips

By Sandcrab

Mining Accident

Further to my blip of the 16th, I returned to the grave with the clasped hands and cleared the soil off it. It reads (so far as I can make out):


          IN REMEMBRANCE
                       OF
             MY HUSBAND
             ALEX WILSON
    DIED RESULT OF ACCIDENT
  3RD MAY 1922 AGED 33 YRS
           MY DAUGHTER
     ISA DIED 9TH DEC 1913
           AGED 3 YRS
    MY GRAND DAUGHTER
     CATHERINE RANKINE
       DIED 8TH DEC 1951
         AGED 6 YRS


Then I realized that the gravestone to the left is a replacement for this one:

                         In
         Loving Memory Of
      ALEXANDER WILSON
  Killed In Plean Pit 3rd May 1922
        Also His Daughter
                  ISA
            Aged 3 Years
     And His Granddaughter
      CATHERINE RANKINE
            Aged 5 Years


I Googled a bit. Alex was an underground colliery machineman and died when a hauling pulley broke and fractured his skull. He had 6 children, the youngest of whom was just 3 months old. His widow, Catherine Murray, survived six more decades and is buried elsewhere in the cemetery. The clasped hands on the gravestone symbolise the marriage.

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