Walton – Bowling Cemetery – Bradford, UK
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This Broken Column Headstone is at the Walton family plot in Bowling Cemetery in Bradford.
Waymark Code: WMAP1X
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/06/2011
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Bowling Cemetery has quite a wide range of different styles of headstones and is still used to-day. The bigger memorials tend to be grouped together in a number of different groups.
This memorial to the Walton family covers a period of time from 1902 to 1950.
Fred Walton’s first wife, Dinah died in 1908, and then he remarried at some point. His second wife outlived him by 29 years.
The inscriptions mention the death of infants and a 26 year old
Headstone/Monument Text:
The inscription on the front reads.
IN
REMEMBRANCE OF
DINAH
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
FRED WALTON
OF THORNBURY,
WHO DIED APRIL 4TH 1908
AGED 42 YEARS.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FRED WALTON,
WHO DIED AT CALLANDER,
SCOTLAND, AUGUST 17TH 1921,
AGED 55 YEARS.
ALSO OF HANNAH,
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED NOV. 17TH 1950.
AGED 75 YEARS.
The inscription on the first side reads
ALSO OF
SARAH WALTON
WHO DIED JUNE 15TH 1902,
AGED 26 YEARS
The inscription on the second side reads
ALSO OF
LILIAN AND HERBET ,
CHILDREN OF
FRED AND DINAH WALTON
WHO DIED IN INFANCY
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