Memorial: M4122

Memorial at St Edmund’s Church, Southwold, Suffolk commemorating Samuel May d.1923

Location

St Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / SAMUEL CHARLES / THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF / HARRIET HANNAH MAY / WHO DIED MAY 18 1923 AGED 63 YEARS / HIS ANCHOR WAS THE HOLY WORD. / HIS RUDDER BLOOMING HOPE. / THE LOVE OF GOD HIS MAINTOPS’LL. / AND FAITH HIS SAILING ROPE. / ALSO HARRIET HANNAH / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / BORN JULY 8TH 1858 DIED FEB 1ST 1924 / AT REST'

Details

Description: Foul anchor on a stormy sea (or rocks). Top of headstone carved with a rope border.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Graveyard

People

May, Samuel Charles
Age: 63
Date of Death: 18/5/1923
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Sighted 2008
Bibliography: David M Wilson 'Awful Ends: the British Museum Book of Epitaphs' (London, 1992) p. 39
Photographer: Pippa Lacey, 2018

JSON

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