Samuel Chester – Inscription

 

Birth: Unknown

 

Died: 6th March 1860

 

Place of Death: Clarence House

 

Interred: West Hartlepool Cemetery which now forms part of North Cemetery

 

Date of Interment: 10^th March 1860

 

Burial Plot: South West 47/ -50 A C (A=Plot Area C=Consecrated)

 

Burial Plots Purchase: July 1860 by Mary Ann Chester. No Address

 

Headstone: Has been totally removed, But there is a historical photograph

 

Inscription is worn & reads: This monument is erected to the late Samuel Chesterton in commemoration of his many, good qualities and as a token of esteem by a few of his numerous friends

Sourced & checked with additional info added in brackets where applicable: Hartlepool Museum Service. West Hartlepool Cemetery Purchased Graves & Inscription Transcripts Durham Archive. Friends of North Cemetery Book of interment South West 1856 – 1871 Hartlepool Central Library. (Now known as Community Hub Central)