Elizabeth EMPSON

Estimated Year of Birth:  1784

Date of Death:  22nd July 1867

Age:  83 years

Grave No:  9

Latitude:  53.72077

Longitude:  -0.85073

what3words:  huts.flagging.recruiter 

Condition:  Falling apart, incomplete but recognisable

Height including base (mm):  2490 mm

Width excluding base (mm):  

570 mm

Thickness excluding base (mm):  

550 mm

Mason:  WAUDBY, YORK 

Inscription

(Facing path)

IN MEMORY OF / 

JARVIS CARRICK /

EMPSON, /

ONLY SON OF /

JARVIS AND ELIZABETH /

EMPSON, /

OF GOOLE HALL. /

WHO DIED ON THE /

3RD OF MARCH 1855. /

IN HIS 37TH YEAR. /

LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF /

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO / ETERNAL LIFE. /

JUDE /

(Left, facing path)

ALSO /

HERE LIES /

ELIZABETH.  WIFE OF /

JARVIS EMPSON, /

OF /

GOOLE HALL, /

FELL ASLEEP JULY 22ND 1867, /

AGED 83. /

COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT / LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, / 

AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.

(Back of monument)

"HAPPY SOUL! THY DAYS ARE ENDED, /

ALL THY MOURNING DAYS BELOW, /

GO BY ANGEL-GUARDS ATTENDED, /

TO THE THRONE OF JESUS GO! /

WAITING TO RECEIVE THY SPIRIT, /

LO! THE SAVIOUR STANDS ABOVE, /

CLAIMS THE PURCHASE OF HIS MERIT: /

REACHES OUT THE CROWN OF LOVE."

(Charles Wesley dying Christian hymn)

(Right facing)

AND ALSO /

HERE LIES /

JARVIS EMPSON. /

LATE OF /

GOOLE HALL /

FELL ASLEEP MARCH 28TH 1871 /

AGED 77 /

YEA.  THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE /

VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, /

I WILL FEAR NO EVIL THOU /

ART WITH ME:  THY ROD AND /

THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME.