This 11ft Aberdeen granite obelisk arrived in the churchyard of All Saints in August 1873, more than a year after the man it commemorates passed away.
The base of the marble angel bears the words "He is not dead but sleepeth". The family crest and motto is above.
The inscription reads:
Sacred to the memory of James Carson of Spinfield, near Marlow in the county of Buckinghamshire and of Albion and Constant Spring [Estates/plantations] in the island of Jamaica. J.P and D.L for Bucks, High Sheriff for the same county (1868), he departed this life 26th May 1872 and was the second son of Thomas Carson Esq of Belfast, and Agnes, daughter of James Simpson Esq of Cammoney county Antrim. He was a Magistrate and Major in the Militia of Jamaica. He succeeded his uncle James Simpson Esq of Spinfield in 1851."To read more about Spinfield see here.
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