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Cloverville Cemetery

Stone #7

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James Thomson

 

Dimensions: approx. 8’ x 2’

Orientation: South

 

Inscription:

In

Memory

of

James Thomson

Died

Oct 9th 1891

Aged 60YRS

 

Blessed are the Dead

Which Die in the Lord

 

Material: Sandstone

                                   

Condition: Obelisk is tilting slightly. There is also some significant moss and lichen growth.

 

 Records at the Antigonish Heritage Museum and an obituary in the Antigonish Casket indicate that Thomson was a religious and literate man, who attended the Church of England.

 

Jonathan Cumminger (edited by Christopher Greencorn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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