Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Photograph

Grave of Eli Broadbent & Family

Rooley Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church, Sowerby



The grave of Eli Broadbent & family at Sowerby Green Congregational Chapel

A fragment of the headstone which is incorporated into the garden wall of a house in Sowerby.


SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY, DAUGHTER OF ELI AND HANNAH
BROADBENT OF SOWERBY WHO DIED
AUGUST 13TH 1866 AGED 17 YEARS.
   
ALSO OF ELI BROADBENT,
FATHER OF THE ABOVE WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE JULY 9TH 1876 IN HIS 51ST YEAR.
   
ALSO OF ELIZABETH, THEIR DAUGHTER WHO
DIED NOVEMBER 7TH 1879 AGED 24 YEARS.
   
ALSO OF HANNAH, THEIR DAUGHTER WHO
DIED JULY 4TH 1880 AGED 21 YEARS.
   
ALSO OF JANE, THEIR DAUGHTER WHO DIED
FEBRUARY 19TH 1882 IN HER 17TH YEAR.
   
ALSO OF HANNAH, WIFE AND MOTHER
OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED JANUARY 25TH 1885 AGED 59 YEARS.
   
BE YE ALSO READY
   
ALSO OF EMILY, THEIR DAUGHTER WHO DIED
FEBRUARY 15TH 1891 AGED 29 YEARS.

This image [RDG1.JPG] was kindly submitted by Rachel Duguid



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