# Alexander Whyte (1798–1900)

Balgay Cemetery, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. Stone 1075.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/dundee-balgay-cemetery/1075

## Face 1

```text
ERECTED BY
ALEXANDER WHYTE
AND
JESSIE OGILVIE
IN MEMORY OF THEIR CHILDREN
MARY
DIED 1ST JAN 1857 AGED 6 YEARS
JESSIE
DIED 21ST OCT 1858 AGED 2 YEARS
ALEXANDER
DIED 25TH MAY 1862 AGED 1 YEAR
MAJORY
DIED 17TH JUNE 1863 AGED 4 YEARS
MARGARET
DIED 23RD AUG 1864 AGED 13 YEARS
WHO ARE
INTERRED IN LOGIE BURYING GROUND

ALSO
ISABELLA [BARCLY?]
WIFE OF
GEORGE WHYTE
DIED 10TH JANUARY 1878
AGED [90?] YEARS
AND THEIR INFANT SON
BOTH INTERRED HERE
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/tayside/dundee/balgay_cemetery/monument/image/G-1/S7001765-side1.JPG)

## Face 1

```text
A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
TO
HIS FATHER
ROBERT WHYTE
BORN 9TH JULY 1798
DIED 25TH SEPTEMBER 1875
AND HIS MOTHER
MARY DEWAR
BORN 4TH AUGUST 1798
DIED 1ST JUNE 1851
BOTH INTERRED IN LARGO FIFESHIRE
AND HIS DAUGHTER
JESSIE WHYTE
DIED AT ALLEGHENY AMERICA
20TH AUG 1888 AGED 21 YEARS
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/tayside/dundee/balgay_cemetery/monument/image/G-1/S7001765-side2.JPG)

## Face 1

```text
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER WHYTE
LATE FACTORY OVERSEER
WHO DIED 20TH JAN 1900
AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO HIS SPOUSE
JESSIE OGILVIE
WHO DIED 25TH FEB 1900
AGED 73 YEARS

O SPREAD THY COVRING WINGS AROUND
TILL ALL OUR WANDRINGS CEASE
AND AT OUR FATHERS LOVD ABODE
OUR SOULS ARRIVE IN PEACE
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/tayside/dundee/balgay_cemetery/monument/image/G-1/S7001765-side3.JPG)

Square brackets mark uncertain readings. The title is guessed from the inscription.

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