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A Founding Member of The Association of Graveyard Rabbits

 

Let's talk of graves and worms and epitaphs.
Shakespeare

 

 

An Epitaph A Day - November 9

Keeps Death's Spectre Away

WALES

ABERCONWAY

Here lieth the body of Nicholas Hooker, of Conway, Gent.
Who was the one and fortieth child of
William Hooker, Esq. by
Alice, his wife, and the father of twenty-seven children.
He died on the 20th day of March, 1637.






Source:

Norfolk, Horatio Edward. Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs. London: J.R. Smith, 1861.

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