IN MEMORY OF
JAMES MORRIS MARVIN
SON OF WILLIAM and ANN
MARVIN of Frolesworth
in the County of Leicester
Who Died April 29th 1814
Aged 8 Years.
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This lovely bud so young and fair
C???? by early doom
Just came to shew how sweet a flower
In Paradice would bloom
James was born 1st
September 1805 and baptised 2 weeks later at Frolesworth. He was the son
of William Marvin and
his wife Ann Cave.
The monument is heavily corroded and the photograph required a lot of
editing to make the text clear. The first half of the second line of the
verse is too damaged to make out.