Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Photograph

Grave of Thomas Tidswell & Family

Sowerby Bridge Cemetery



The grave of Thomas Tidswell & family at Sowerby Bridge Cemetery

Epitaph


WITH JESUS WHICH IS FAR BETTER
   
In Loving Memory of
EDWARD,
SON OF TOM & SOPHIA TIDSWELL,
OF BEECH SOWERBY BRIDGE,
WHO DIED DEC. 5TH 1888,
AGED 4 YEARS,
AND 6 MONTHS.
   
HIS SHORT BRIGHT LIFE ON EARTH IS RUN,
WE WEEP BUT SAY GOD'S WILL BE DONE.
   
ALSO PTE. FRED TIDSWELL,
25450 EAST YORKS REGT,
SON OF THE ABOVE,
WHO DIED OF WOUNDS MARCH 21ST 1917
AT ETAPLES, FRANCE. IN HIS 27TH YEAR
   
ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND LOST
KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD-GONE.
   
ALSO OF THE ABOVE
SOPHIA TIDSWELL,
WHO DIED DEC 6TH 1927,
AGED 68 YEARS.
   
ALSO OF THE ABOVE
TOM TIDSWELL,
WHO DIED FEB. 7TH 1938,
AGED 76 YEARS.

[Taken in June 2015]

This image [HH593.JPG] was kindly submitted by Derrick Habergham



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