# He Forth Did Come (1805–1827)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1714.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1714

## Face 1

```text
LIKE A ROSE IN BLOOM
HE FORTH DID COME
HIS BLOSSOM SOON WAS GONE
AND NOW HE [STAND?]
IN DEATHS COLD BED
[?]

M DCCC VIII
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002460-side1.JPG)

## Face 1

```text
ERECTED
BY
GEORGE MARTIN. TO THE
MEMORY OF HIS SON JAMES. WHO
DIED OCT 25 1805 AGED ONE YEAR.
AND OF HIS GRAND DAUGHTER ISABELLA
MARTIN WHO DIED MAY 8 [1826?] AGED
ONE YEAR. AND LIES INTERED IN DUNDEE.
AND OF HER FATHER WILLIAM.
WHO DIED MAY 20 [1827?] AGED 26.
THE ABOVE GEORGE MARTIN
DIED [18?] OCTOBER [?] AGED [10?] YEARS
AND AGNES [?] HIS WIFE
DIED 8TH FEBRUARY [?] AGED [?] YEARS
ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER ISABELLA
DIED 21ST APRIL [?] AGED [?] YEARS
AND AGNES DIED [?]
AGED 60 YEARS
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002460-side2.JPG)

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

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