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his spouse". On the top of the stone are the
initials R.C. and A McB. The record of
the family is somewhat involved but it seems
to indicate marvellous fecundity!

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(?Another) stone has the same symbolical re:
:presentation of Adam & Eve (In the tree above
Eve's head is a skull laid on its back --- on the previous stone)
Another stone with a similar carving is
broken in half.
There is a monument having at the top two
cherubim reclining on each side of a central tulip-
-like flower blowing trumpets and beneath a
bordered panel bearing the following inscription
"I dyed in giving life I have
a life tho' lying in the grave.
I rest in hop here for to see
who purchased true life for me"
It is dated 1734 on the back, singularly, bears
to be the tomb of David Reid
An 18th century stone commemorates Adam
Macpwhan who being sick of a fever was taken
out of his bed and carried to Newtown of
Galloway and the next day most cruelly
and unjustly shot to death by the command
of Lieutenant General James Douglas brother
to the Duke of Queens Berry for his

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