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- 132 REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA
affairs as here related, may cause them to move at once to right matters.
I might say that the individual plots were owned out-right by the relations, and others, for they have certain title to them. Individual comments are made on all those that I know or knew of, and several large, heavy stones I could not lift to get inscriptions, as they lay on their face. In several cases wood headboards have outlived stone, the inscription on the former being more legible than the stone. The action of the elements in many cases has entirely erased some, especially from sandstone, although newer than the wood boards.
One of the inscriptions I have read many a time as being quaint, was so far as I can remember, thus :
. . Physicians were in vain;
Till Christ did please to give her ease, release from all her pain."
John S. Titcombe, pilot; monument erected by I. 0. 0. F.; died 1869, aged 41 years.
Matthew Hollow, died Feb. 28, 1871, aged 39 years; erected by Victoria Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Thos. Pritchard, died Oct. 31, 1883, aged 79; also Margaret his wife, died Dec. 3, 1871, 64 years. Note?This is the most pretentious monument in the cemetery. They leave grandchildren.
James Orr, died 1871, aged 32 years; buried by St. Andrew's Masons and I. O. 0. F.
Alice Heathcote, wife of J. W. Hutchinson, jailer; died March 30, 1868, aged 27 years.
Margaret Langley, wife of Edward Langley; died 1866; leaves relatives.
James McCulloch, engineer steamer Sir JamesOLD QUADRA STREET CEMETERY 133
Douglas; died April 2, 1870, aged 46; also Margaret, wife of above, died Dec. 3, 1871, aged 64 years; also Wm. M. Doran, mate of same ship, who was accidentally drowned in Victoria harbor, July 7, 1868, aged 45 years ; erected by officers and men of steamer.
Jessie Russell, wife of Robt. J. Russell (Russell's Station) ; died Aug. 29, 1860, aged 42.
John Wilkie, Wharf Street merchant; died April 28, 1871, aged 38 years.
James Murray Reid (Reid & Macdonald), partner of Senator Macdonald, and father of Mrs. W. J. Macdonald.
James Hepburn, died April 16, 1869; 58 years.
Nathaniel Milby Hicks, clerk C. M. C., died Oct. 31, 1870, age 52. (Member of first municipal council Victoria city.)
Capt. John W. Waitt, father of late M. W. Waitt; died 1870, aged 67.
Frederick and Arthur?children of Mrs. J. W. Williams.
Thos. Carter, of Hillside Farm, died 1869, aged 52 years; was husband of Mrs. C. Booth (and father of William Carter, provincial assessor's office). Note?Mr. Carter contracted a bad cold in the cemetery at the funeral of a brother Mason, and was heard to remark in an undertone to a friend as he was looking down into the grave, "And who will be the next ?" Strange to say, he himself was the next, for within ten days his brother Masons met there to bury him.
Mrs. Harriet Jameson; died 1868, aged 18 years.
John Work, Chief Factor of H. B. Co., died Dec. 22, 1861, aged 70; and his son, Henry, died June 19, 1856, aged 12 years. (John Work was well known to all old-timers.)
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