# Elizabeth Cook (1832–1920)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1516.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1516

```text
ERECTED
BY
ELIZABETH COOK
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
GEORGE BLACK
WHO WAS DROWNED BY THE WRECK
OF THE [STEAMBOAT?] FORFARSHIRE
5TH SEPT [1832?] AGED 42 YEARS.
AND HIS SON GEORGE
WHO DIED 22ND MARCH 1841
AGED [13?] YEARS.
ALSO THEIR SON ROBERT
WHO DIED 2ND MAY 1839
AGED 7 MONTHS.
AND THEIR DAUGHTER RACAHEL
WHO DIED 28TH JAN 1851
AGED 20 YEARS
AND MARY WHO DIED 20TH JUNE 1853
AGED 24 YEARS.
ALSO THEIR SON JAMES
WHO DIED AT SEA 9TH SEPT [1866?]
AGED 41 YEARS.
THE ABOVE ELIZABETH COOK
DIED 25TH FEBRUARY 1875 AGED 70 YEARS.
ALSO WILLIAM LAMOND
WHO DIED 16TH OCT 1887 AGED 52 YEARS
AND HELEN BLACK
WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM LAMOND
WHO DIED 4TH JAN [1920?] AGED [85?] YEARS

ISIAH EXIV. 6TH WE ALL DO FADE AS A LEAF.
```

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

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