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St Giles Churchyard

Elizabeth Cave - monument. Click for larger image in new window


Here rests the body
of ELIZABETH

widow of WILLIAM CAVE
died DECr 1st 1897

aged 92
Grant her O Lord eternal life


Elizabeth Haddon was born in Warwickshire c.1805, marrying William Cave of Desborough by 1832. She was left a widow, with six surviving children, in 1844. She is also remembered on the Cave table top tomb, shown below.

Her eldest son, Lewis William Cave, became a barrister and later a judge.


Panel from Cave tomb

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
WIDOW OF WILLIAM CAVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER
MDCCCXCVII
IN HER NINETY-THIRD YEAR