Gravestone Inscription

JOHN SMITH
COACHMAN PARK
IN MEMORY OF
HIS SON JOHN
WHO DIED 8TH NOV 1867
AGED 12 YEARS
ALSO HIS DAUGHTER ISABELLA
WHO DIED 7TH NOV 1883
AGED 24 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE JOHN SMITH
WHO DIED AT BARSAIL 14TH FEBY 1895
AGED 80 YEARS.
AND HIS WIFE ISABELLA ARMSTRONG
WHO DIED AT BARSAIL 27TH DECr 1899
AGED 70 YEARS.

 

Additional information

Isabella Smith – died 7th November 1883, aged 24.
She was the collector of the Sustentation Fund of the Free Church.

The Court (Deacons) agreed to put on record their sense of the valuable service rendered to the church, as a collector, by their departed sister who, for several years performed her work in a very steady and affectionate, kindly and exemplary manner.

RECORDS OF THE FREE CHURCH OF INCHINNAN

(Sustentation Fund ; a fund, especially in the Church of Scotland, to augment the support of ministers.)