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Summary

Memorial in the churchyard to Margaret Huxtable, aged 8, murdered in January 1812.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX74SW/18/2

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT (XIX - 1812 AD to 1812 AD (Between))

Full description

Square, J.H., 1897, Epitaphs From Churches, Churchyards and Burial Places, 188-189 (Article in Serial). SDV348880.

St. Thomas of Canterbury. Memorial in the churchyard.
"Sacred to the memory of Margaret daughter of William and Jane Huxtable of this parish, a child of 8 years old. Who on the 20th January 1812 being decoy'd out of the village was violated and murder'd with the most savage barbarity. As a memorial of respect to the unfortunate sufferer and as a mark of execration to the perpetrator of so horrible a crime this monument was erected at the general expense of the parish:

If smiles of innocence thy life could save
and check those hands that sent thee to the grave
those murd'rous hands whose curs'd relentlefs rage
spar'd not sweet harmlefs child thy tender age
but struck with fatal aim the deadly blow
then had we not bewail'd thy dreadful doom
thy early summons to this silent tomb
but hark methinks I hear a spirit say
your tears surpress your sorrow cast away
for why bewail her doom she's only gone
to wait with angels around Jehovah's throne "

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