A Female Unknown - Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, UK
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N 51° 54.509 W 000° 35.004
30U E 666227 N 5753619
This headstone is in memory of an unknown female who was murdered.
Waymark Code: WM5WWE
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/22/2009
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The inscription reads as follows:
'This stone was erected by subscription to the memory of a female unknown found murdered in Blackgrove Wood August 15, 1821.
Oh pause my friends and drop the silent tear
Attend and learn why I was buried here;
Perchance some distant earth had hid my clay
If I'd outlived the sad, the fatal day;
To you unknown, my case not understood
From whence I came or why in Blackgrove Wood.
This truth's too clear and nearly all that's known,
I there was murdered and the villains flown.
May God whose piercing eye pursues his flight
Pardon the crime but bring the deed to light.'
The murderers were never caught and the victim never was identified. Now, the headstone has worn but thanks to the book 'Odd & Unusual Bedfordshire by Alan Cox' is documented.
The murder was reported at the time and there is an interesting account here: (
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