# James Soutar Grocer (1851–1879)

Western Cemetery, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland. Stone 620.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/dundee-western-cemetery/620

```text
1859

ERECTED BY
JAMES SOUTAR, GROCER.
SCOURINGBURN, DUNDEE,
IN MEMORY OF HIS WIFE,
JANET FERGUSON,
WHO DIED 8TH JANUARY 1851, AGED 28 YEARS.
AND HIS SON,
FERGUSON
WHO DIED IN INFANCY 11TH JANUARY 1851.
ALSO HIS FATHER
ROBERT SOUTAR,
WHO DIED 26TH JULY 1853, AGED 72 YEARS.
AND HIS MOTHER,
EUPHEMIA WILSON,
WHO DIED 25TH FEBRUARY 1856 AGED 76 YEARS.
AND HIS SON,
ROBERT,
WHO DIED  18TH DECEMBER 1858,
AGED 1 YEAR AND [3?] MONTHS.
ALSO HIS DAUGHTER,
MARGARET FORBES,
WHO DIED 29TH JUNE 1865 AGED 6 YEARS.
THE ABOVE JAMES SOUTAR,
DIED 16TH JUNE 1871 AGED 48 YEARS,
DEEPLY REGRETTED BY HIS SORROWING
FRIENDS,
AND ALL WHO KNEW HIM
MARGARET FORBES,
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE JAMES SOUTAR,
DIED 14TH DECEMBER [1879?] AGED 53 YEARS.

[?] SCOTT
SON-IN-LAW OF THE ABOVE JAMES SOUTAR
DIED IN [?] AGED [?] YEARS.
```

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

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