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Margaret Halladay spouse to William Ferguson
w ? 1740 aged 30. on the front but now half
concealed by the soil into which the stone has sunk
is carved a female figure with a "Mutch" like
bonnet on her head [sketch inserted here] a frill round the
neck of her stomacher and sleeves extending
only to the elbow (photo)
A slab set against the E. [East] side of a railed in burial
enclosure belonging to a family of the name
of Carruthers some 50 South of the East end of
the church, bears on the front in the centre
a shield charged with a saltire, in chief
two cushions tasselled, in base a heart
beneath, the date 1697. Along
one side & the top is inscribed the inscription
"Evine this our anchents have us told
that ve our burial place should hold
in me." and on the back of the stone,
with the first word mutilated, is the further
inscription... all ye christians vho doe live
and one the earthe in sin doe move
beg pardon from every one so long as
time may not be gone the word of
God hath bene reveald of old to prophets
and they have us told now time is gone
and shall no mor eternity is thee

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