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In

Memory of

JOHN COALES

Departed this Life

February the 19th 1775

AGED 86

In

Memory of Grace

the Wife of John

Coales who Died

June the 24th 1775

AGED 81


Naked as from the Earth we came,
And crept to Life at first,
We to the Earth return again,
And Mingle with our Dust.

John Coales (or Coals) was born about 1689. With Grace, he had 3 known children: Grace, John and Robert