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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