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Monument Details
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Raised Tablet; 4 Kerbstones |
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Marble Lead letters |
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North Kerbstone: outer slope: In Loving Memory of / Rachel, wife of T.M. Nias, // South Kerbstone: outer slope: Who fell asleep in Jesus / 9th. Jan. 1887, aged 56 years. // Raised Tablet: In Loving Memory of / Alice Kate / widow of / Thomas Merriman Nias / who passed to her rest Nov. 20th. 1920. / Peace Perfect Peace. //
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Partially buried. Tabllet sunk. Some lead letters damaged or missing. |
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LS(J)38 |
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Rachel was the first wife of Thomas Merriman Nias, a grocer & son of Thomas Nias, Ironmonger. She was a farmer's daughter from Littleworth, just north of Faringdon, Berks. She married Thomas in 1876. A year after Rachel died Thomas M. married Alice Kate, a Telegraph Clerk in her widowed mother's Post Office and grocery store in Sherfield on Loddon, Hampshire. They are both buried in the plot in front of the grave of Thomas Merriman and his mother Sarah. Alice & Thomas lived at 19 Craven Rd, Newbury. Their son, Thomas Somerset Nias was a Motor Engineer.
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01 February 2020 |
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EAC |
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