Talland Church Headstones

Lansallos Gravestone: 106

• • opc – additional information taken from Lansallos Online Parish Clerk; discrepancies in BOLD

Stone Inscription:

Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better’

‘For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.’

Sacred
to the memory of
William Oliver,
of Polperro, who
changed this life for
eternity, the 29th day
of July, in the year of
our Lord God
1796, Aged 49 
years

Here lies lamented in the silent Grave
A Tender Huƒband and a Parent brave.
But Death that Tyrant, did to soon deƒtry,
the Widows hope & her dear Childrens Joy.

Also
Thomas Oliver
Son, who died an Infant