THETCHER’S TOMBSTONE, WINCHESTER.
From a Photo by F. A. Grant.
Epitaphs on Parish Clerks and Sextons.
Not a few of our old parish clerks and sextons were eccentric characters, and it is not therefore surprising that their epitaphs are amongst the most curious of the many strange examples to be found in the quiet resting-places of the departed.
In the churchyard of Crayford is a gravestone bearing the following inscription:—
Here lieth the body
of
Peter Isnell,
Thirty years clerk of this Parish.
He lived respected as a pious and mirthful man, and died on his
way to church to assist at a wedding,
On the 31st day of March, 1811,
Aged 70 years.
The inhabitants of Crayford have raised this stone to his cheerful memory, and as a tribute to his long and faithful services.