# Jessie Welch (1856–1880)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1708.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1708

```text
1880
ERECTED
BY
JESSIE WELCH
IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND
ROBERT KIDDIE
WHO DIED 14TH NOVEMBER 1876
AGED 20 YEARS
AND THEIR CHILDREN
JOHN DIED 25TH AUGUST 1872
AGED 1 YEAR AND 4 MONTHS
ROBERT DIED 5TH FEBRUARY 1877
AGED 10 MONTHS
AND CATHERINE DIED 30TH APRIL 1877
AGED 2 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS
ALSO HER MOTHER
PENELOPE KIDDIE
AHO DIED 30TH AUGUST 1878
AGED 64 YEARS.
AND HER FATHER
JAMES WELCH
WHO DIED 28TH JAN [1856?]
AGED 77 YEARS

THESE LOVELY BUDS SO YOUNG AND FAIR
CALLED HENCE BY EARLY DOOM.
JUST CAME TO SHOW HOW SWEET A FLOWER
IN PARADISE COULD BLOOM.
```

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

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