IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HENRY WILLIS CHENEY
WHO DIED JULY 21, 1894,
AGED 49 YEARS
GONE BEFORE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
NEVER SHALL THY MEMORY FADE
LOVING THOUGHTS WILL EVER LINGER
ROUND THE SPOT WHERE THOU ART LAID
ALSO
CHARLOTTE,
BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED AUGUST 10 1906
AGED 65 YEARS
WHEN THE WEARY ONES WE LOVE
ENTER ON THEIR REST ABOVE
SEEMS THE EARTH SO POOR AND ----
ALL OUR LIFE - JOYS OVERCAST
---- BE EVERY MURMUR DUMB
SEVERED ONLY - 'TILL HE COME'
Henry Willis Cheney
was born about 1844 at Harrington, the fifth known child of
William Cheney and
Mary Ann Willis.
Charlotte Kilborn
was the seventh of thirteen known children of
Samuel Kilborn and
Eliza Baines. She was
born at Desborough on 1st June 1841.
Henry and Charlotte were married about 1869. Before that the 1861 census
indicates that Charlotte was looking after her youngest sibling, her deaf and
dumb brother Joseph.