Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
WILLIAM LOVETT TURNER
WHO DIED NOVEMBER 2ND 1855
IN THE 35TH YEAR OF HER AGE
Also IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM LOVETT TURNER
Formerly of Harrington.
Who Died at Church House, Desboro.
JUNE 24TH 1885.
IN THE 69TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
UNTIL THE DAY DAWN AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
'TIS GOD THAT LIFTS OUR COMFORTS HIGH
OR SINKS THEM IN THE GRAVE:
HE GIVES, AND [BLESSED BE HIS NAME!]
HE TAKES BUT WHAT HE GAVE.
Mary Crafts
was born about 1821 at Winwick, Huntingdon. She married William Lovett Turner
early in 1841 (or late 1840).
William Lovett Turner was born about 1816
at West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Mary was his first wife. They had 11 known
children together, Mary possibly dying at the birth of the last child, Mary
Eleanor.
William married again in 1860. His second wife,
Matilda Newman, also
died young, after less than 5 years of marriage. She was survived by two sons.
William's third wife was
Ellen Harriet Fairmaner. They married in 1867 and the family was extended by
four more children. Ellen survived her husband by five years, dying in 1890.