Birth: Unknown
Died: April 4th 1865
Place of Death: James Street
Interred: West Hartlepool Cemetery, which now forms part of North Cemetery
Date of Interment: 9th April 1865
Burial plot: South West 261 E U (E=Plot Area. U=Unconsecrated)
Headstone: A headstone still exists, but removed. It now lines the main upper path with many others, embedded in the tarmac
Position along the path: Right 61
Inscription is carved, defaced & reads with difficulty: Sacred to the memory of Henry Fortune son of Thomas & Hannah Fortune of West Hartlepool who died April 4th 1865 aged 29 years. NK. Is he gone whom we so dearly loved whose tender kindness we so often proved yes he’s gone happy spirits fled and now he’s with the silent dead