AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 11 



Another tombstone record runs : 



IN LOVING MEMORY OF 



PHILIP, 



SON OF JOHN AND MARY OSBORNE, 



WHO DIED IST JUNE, 1863, 



AGED 27 YEARS. 



Yet one more slab rises over the dust of " Old John." 

 The inscription reads: 



IN MEMORY OF 



JOHN HOWE OSBORNE, OF ASHGILL, 



WHO DIED 31sT JULY, 1865, 

 AGED 63 YEARS. 



A loving husband, tender father, and sincere friend, 

 A generous and an honest man to the end, 

 Always inclined to serve a friend when in trouble, 

 Doubtless by the Lord will be rewarded double. 



ALSO OF MARY, His WIFE, 



WHO DIED 24TH NOVEMBER, 1883, 

 AGED 79 YEARS. 



If one be inclined to smile at the halting numbers 

 of the homely verse, the levity is quickly changed into 

 a feeling of admiration for the stout-hearted, brave old 

 fellow whose dust now mingles with the mother clay 

 below. He had been thrilled by the earthquake voice 

 of " king-making victory " ; he had passed through the 

 turmoil and the vanity of the strife. In reverential 

 memory one uncovers to the departed worthy, whose 

 life labours had been spent on the near and famous 

 Moor, rearing and training with watchful care the 



