Talland Church Headstones

Lansallos Gravestone: 147

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

Stone Inscription:

Sacred
To The Memory Of
Richard Collings
Late of this Parish
who Departed this life
the 14th day of June in the Year of our Lord God 1806
Aged 55 Years

Here lies lamented in the silent grave
Tender Husband and a Parent brave
But death that Tyrant did too soon destroy
The Widows Hope and her Dear Children’s joy

Also by Him lie the remains of Sally
his first Wife who departed this life the
29th day of May in the Year of Our
Lord God 1799  Aged 33 Years

Also Four Of His Children (viz)
Two By His First Wife And Two By His Second.