Gravestone Inscription

Sacred
To
THE MEMORY OF
MARGARET WHITE, WIFE OF
JAMES HOUSTON, FARMER FREELAND
WHO DIED 9TH FEBy 1861
AGED 39 YEARS
THE ABOVE
JAMES HOUSTON
DIED AT WEST CRAIGENFEOCH
26TH AUGUST 1892 AGED 88 YEARS

I leave the world without a tear
Save for the friend I held so dear.
To heal their sorrows Lord descend
And to the friendless prove a friend.

 

Additional information

Verse from “THE HOUR OF MY DEPARTURE’S COME”
the Scottish Translations and Paraphrases, 1781