# Joanna Martin Duffus (1851–1904)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1549.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1549

```text
ERECTED BY
JOANNA MARTIN DUFFUS,
IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER
JOHN MARTIN, SHIPMASTER,
DIED 24TH SEPT 1857, AGED 53 YEARS.
ALSO HER MOTHER
MARGARET SIMPSON,
DIED 29TH JAN 1891, AGED 31 YEARS.
ALSO HER TWO SISTERS,
MARGARET,
DIED 10TH JULY 1851, AGED 3 YEARS.
CATHERINE,
DIED 19TH OCT 1868, AGED 22 YEARS.
ALSO HER DAUGHTER,
MARGARET S. DUFFUS,
DIED 27TH JULY 1904
AND IS INTERRED IN EVERGREEN CEMETERY, BROOKLYN.

THE CUP WAS BITTER, THE LOSS SEVERE,
TO PART WITH THEM WE LOVED SO DEAR,
IT WAS GOD'S WILL IT SHOULD BE SO
BY HIS COMMAND WE ALL MUST GO.
```

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

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