{
  "id": 1635,
  "title": "Rev Adam Blair",
  "years": "1779–1842",
  "url": "https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1635",
  "place": {
    "slug": "tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery",
    "name": "Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery",
    "type": "cemetery",
    "town": "Tayport",
    "county": "Fife",
    "country": "Scotland",
    "url": "https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery",
    "stones": 228,
    "inscriptions": 286,
    "transcribed": 232
  },
  "inscriptions": [
    {
      "face": 1,
      "text": "SACRED\nTO THE MEMORY OF\nTHE REV. ADAM BLAIR\nMINISTER OF THE [?]\nCHURCH FERRY-PORT-ON-CRAIG.\nHE WAS BORN [?]\nIN THE PARISH OF [?] AND DIED\n[25TH?] NOV [1840?] IN THE 61 YEAR OF HIS AGE\n[?] OF HIS MINISTRY\n\n[?] WITH THE SPIRIT OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY\nHE APPROVED HIMSELF AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND, AND A FAITH FRIEND\nWHILE HE DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF A\nCHRISTIAN PASTOR, WITH UNTIRING FIDELITY.\n\nHE LEAVES BEHIND HIM WORKS,\nWHICH WILL LONG REMAIN TO SERVE HIS\nMASTER, AND EDIFY THE CHURCH\nWHILE FROM THIS TOMB, HE CONTINUES TO\nPREACH IN FAR LOUDER ACCENTS, THAN\nTHOSE OF A LIVING VOICE, BESEECHING\nMEN IN CHRISTS STEAD, TO BE RECOURILED\nUNTO GOD.\n\nHIS SURVIVING PARTNER ERECTED\nTHIS AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.\nO DEATH, WHERE IS THY SLING!\nO GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY!",
      "photos": [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002367_side1.JPG"
      ]
    },
    {
      "face": 1,
      "text": "[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n[?]\n\nALSO ELIZABETH HENDERSON\n[?] OF THE LATE REV. ADAM BLAIN\nWHO WAS BORN IN NINE WELLS JULY [1779?]\nAND DIED [?] JULY [1842?] AGED 63 YEARS",
      "photos": [
        "https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002367_side2.JPG"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "licence": "Transcriptions CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit kirkyards.scot",
  "notes": {
    "title": "Guessed from the first name in the inscription; may be wrong.",
    "uncertain": "Square brackets mark uncertain readings, e.g. [1877?].",
    "years": "Earliest and latest years appearing in the inscription."
  }
}